Babies through AIT?
Oct 31, 2010 | 7:43 am
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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.
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.
Oct 31, 2010 | 9:09 am
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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.
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.
Oct 31, 2010 | 9:11 am
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Babies are not required to be strip searched by the TSA's machines. And toddlers? Good luck to the TSA trying to physically restrain such children so as to stand "in position" long enough to let the TSA generate images that may arouse the libido of pedophiles in its ranks.
Oct 31, 2010 | 9:12 am
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Oct 31, 2010 | 10:16 am
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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?
Oct 31, 2010 | 11:09 am
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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.
Oct 31, 2010 | 3:02 pm
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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.
Oct 31, 2010 | 3:19 pm
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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?
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.)