Originally Posted by
GUWonder
It depends on the airport.
At some airports, during the hours when all airport concessions are open, it can be 5-6 TSA employees working a single checkpoint lane of passengers at some given times.
For some airports' screening checkpoints with very large number of scanners for cabin baggage, maybe the number gets down to 2-3 TSA employees per lane, as part of a nominal form of economies of scale.
I think the real question is how many people does TSA mandate to operate one screening lane.
You would have a TDC (who could cover for more than one lane), usually a person near the line where people place items on the xray feed table, one at the input side of the WBI (often blocking the WTMD), two (one male, one female) on the output side of the WBI, xray operator, at least one to hand search bags, and 3 or 4 STSO/LTSO's standing around watching nothing in particular.
So I'm gong to take a SWAG of about 10 screeners to man a single checkpoint lane. I didn't allow any windage for useless BDO's.