<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A suggestion I had was if you know the next person will be a continuous instead of having a person back up and take the offending item off just send them into the pen for secondary. Why waste their time when they are going through secondary anyway.
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So your suggestion is to deny a passenger a second chance, even though the procedure in place says it. Why have the procedure then, why not go back to the single pass?
Just so we "look busy"? The worst thing I've heard caught during a continuous is a pocket knife, which most of us seem to agree isn't a creaible weapon to a plane.
Don't you think this is completely stupid?
I've even got a idea:
For the next few months, we do continuous screening. Everytime a item is found that is prohibited in the wanding area, we ask the screener if it was a continuous or a ringer. On some kind of paper, you record this information over that few month period.
At the end of it, you review it and if you see that continuous screening is something that needs to be in place, then maybe we should keep it up. But send that paperwork up the chain of command, to say the FSD of your area. Tell him/her why the test was done (to see if the harrasment factor is worth it).
I know my airports case, very few items have been caught during a continuous screening in a 2 year period.
[This message has been edited by screenerx (edited Jan 16, 2004).]