Babies through AIT?
 

The TSA site does not says anything about babies/toddlers going through AIT. What is the process for them? What happens if parents opt-out?
I am very familiar with the metal detector process - baby in my arm, but what now?

My question is both for our respected residential TSOs, as well as parents who had first-hand experience.

Babies are not required to be strip searched by the TSA's machines. And toddlers? The TSA is going to have a difficult time trying to physically restrain all such children in a timely manner so as to stand "in position" long enough to let them generate images that may arouse the libido of pedophiles in its ranks.

No the babies will just get felt up by some government employee.

That describes it.

The babies and toddlers are not subject to the AIT.

Have TSO's been instructed not to choose parents with babies and toddlers for the AIT?

Confirming that a government employee will just feel them up!

So how are you going to screen them and the people accompanying them? With WTMD, when I was traveling along with an infant I could put the child in a baby bjorn and just walk through the WTMD. Now do you expect me to put the child on the ground while a clerk gropes my genitals, or hold the child while some clerk checks their diaper?

And that's sad indeed:mad:

In either case one should not be walking through or near the strip search machines with an infant or toddler. The effects of ionizing radiation accumulate over a lifetime, and children who are too young to make an informed decision should not exposed to any that is not medically necessary and not administered with duly trained & license radiological technicians.

If you are travelling from Canada into the US, it doesn't matter that the parent is travelling with children. If you, as the adult, are selected ... you are selected - bring your child with you or not. According to the CATSA office, the clerk at the "randomizer" cannot overrule the randomizer decision.

According the TSA's former rules, baby's are not allowed to be hold by TSOs or other pax. So where to put the kid? It seems a logistical nightmare for parents as well as TSO's.

Holidays are coming. In the next two months literally millions of parents are going to fly with their babies/toddlers. Most of them infrequent traveler, never even heard about AIT. Should not TSA advices them? On the website, by flyers, signs at the airport whatever? (Versus angry TSO's barking them conflicting orders at the airport.)

(Having baby grandsons, my question is genuine. I really do not know what to do, and I am a very experienced flyer.)