To welcome the nude-o-scopes to Glacier Park International Airport (FCA), the local newspaper ran this editorial:
Daily Inter Lake:
Security or just plain nuts?
Posted: Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:50 pm
Updated: 9:54 am, Sun Mar 11, 2012.
The editorial opens with these three sentences:
It’s more than a shame that our relatively convenient and user-friendly Glacier Park International Airport will soon buckle under to another level of “security” imposed on it by the Federal Bureau of Citizen Harassment, otherwise known as the Transportation Security Administration.
Sometime this month, the airport security area will be renovated partly to make room for Advanced Imaging Technology “body scanner” machines. While passengers will have a choice between using the scanners or going through security the “old-fashioned way,” combined with random patdowns, it’s just another expensive, cumbersome inconvenience added to a process that already makes flying an unpleasant experience for most people.
A posted comment from Fisher1949 includes this information about the passenger volumes through Glacier Park International:
GPI averages only 439 passengers per day and 27 per hour. There is no legitimate reason to spend over $500,000 per scanner for an airport this small.