Originally Posted by
QueenOfCoach
Once they scan the boarding pass and see "LLL" or "not LLL", you must follow through. You can't change your mind and go try again.
They make it clear that the expedited screening is not an entitlement. There will be some random TT passengers who get the full screening.
But is
full screening an entitlement?
Ie, if you get "LLL",
must you go to A4, or do you simply need to go to A4 if you want a chance at expedited screening? If you go to some other door than A4, you are not going to expedited screening for sure, but is there anything wrong with that other than inefficiency? Will they steer you back to A4, will they scold you for not having gone to A4?
In my case, on
some of my trips (not the next few, which are DEQ11 MRs
), I carry photo film which I ask to be hand-screened. (Yeah, I worry more about X-rays on my film than X-rays on my body!
) I don't know if this would be approriate (or at least appreciated) to do in an expedited screening lane. For the sake of my fellow passengers, on such trips, I often take the longest line in the room since I know that the request for hand-screening is going to slow everything down. But I'm not sure how to adjust that protocol on a trip where I've been selected for expedited screening.