I honestly don't care one way or another about going through the nude-o-scope. After 12 years in the military, they have all that stuff on me anyways :)

I honestly think they pick on the elite line because:
a) they know that we won't complain too much because we need to travel for our jobs
b) that we won't have anything on ourselves which means they won't have to do anything additional that may require more work

In other words, the usual laziness that is so eloquently demonstrated by the vast majority of TSAers on a daily basis...

The screening in front the elite TDC uses WBI which is slower. Thus the TDC takes more time to check ID and BP to prevent overflow.

As others have said, once you clear the elite TDC, you just keep walking to the right to get to the WTMDs.

IME, even with the slow elite TDC, it is faster to use the slow TDC, and walk to a WTMD.

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The priority lines at DEN are not created by TSA. In fact they get a lot of attention from TSA because they tend to be the passengers that b*tch the loudest. Since the elite passengers pay more they are listened to. In a lot of cases the line gets multiple officers checking ID and BP for that one line. You dont see that at regular lines. There are some problems though. The elite line tends to be integrated with the employee and pwd line on two cp's.

none of that is in the glossary, nor makes any sense. What the hell are you talking about...

You get a team leader coming over to relieve the pressure.

Constantly the lines, even the non-elite line, is extremely long, and never are the ID podiums full staffed. It was a problem a couple of years ago, and it's becoming a problem again.

It's extremely frustrating when that short-staffing is going on, all the while there are screeners standing above, near the credit union and the Post Office just standing around. Sure, they might be BDOs or SPOT, whatever....the point being is that you have got TSAers standing around, in uniform, while the most tangible source of frustration of people is going on....long lines.

People with disabilities and checkpoints.

You are very observant! Those people that are standing around are called diverters and they have to move the flow of people away from South or South gets hammered and the other cp dont see as much activity. We are trying to dump that job off to hss or airserve.

Instead of standing around put them to screening people and resolve the backload.

BDO's should be TDC's, where else to have a provided opportunity to interact with the public.

TSA needs to hire a company for some workflow studies.

But Chertoff hasn't started a workflow consultancy business, yet. Perhaps when Pissy or Nappy leave and are incentivized to resolve inefficiencies.