Originally Posted by
Bart
My advice: place your wallet inside your carry-on bag before you go through the AIT/WTMD (whichever applies at your departure airport). It gets screened with the rest of your property and will most likely be cleared by x-ray.
I agree 100%. I've been doing this since about 1978. It goes in there in the parking lot right after I put my parking lot ticket in it and comes out again in a men's room stall in the airside terminal. This is just good OPSEC, and I don't know why it's so difficult.