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| Status | Airline | Checkpoint | Date | Notes | Time | Wait |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2013-05-16 | Had to wait over 5 minutes for groper; patdown was almost nonexistent. | 1250p | 8 | |
| UA | Terminal A, United Express concourse | 2013-05-02 | WTMD only in use. Easy and painless. | 1000a | 3 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2013-04-25 | Power-tripping TSOs and LTSOs today. Took a reasonable STSO to tell them to do their jobs. | 600p | 7 | |
| AA | A 30 | 2013-04-23 | Normally there are two que lines ... priority access and the regular line; TSA has turned priority access into a normal line and are making all priority access go to the back of the line ... a second TSA agent told me TSA has the option to discontiue priority access without notice and the arilines can keep there 'priority access' sign in place but TSA can chose to ignore it; there were half a dozen TSA agents cheerfully watching the chaos ... looks like organized work slow down to punish frequent flyers | |||
| UA | C-1 Priority | 2013-03-17 | The priority lane led to a WTMD. There seemed to be an option to a MMW scanner as well. I was not sure whether one in the far right who was not in the priority lane could also use the WTMD lane, but all the other lanes at the checkpoint (for customers not in the priority lane) were sent to MMW. | 500a | ||
| AA | Terminal 3 | 2013-03-15 | Everyone was sent through the WTMD line. It looked like there might have been other lines with scanners but they were not in use. | 1220p | ||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2013-02-07 | No chance for SDOO; MMW for all. Opted out, per usual routine. | 450p | 15 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2013-01-31 | Same nonsense as usual here. | 500p | 3 | |
| UA | C2 | 2013-01-20 | Tsa not allowing anyone through security. Waiting 10 minutes so far. No announcements as to what is happening. | 740a | ||
| UA | C-1 | 2013-01-12 | Lane on the right was WMTD. Was able to do a SDOO. | 930a | ||
| UA | C-3 | 2012-12-26 | All checkpoints were extremely crowded, however only in C-3 was there a chance to be sent through the WTMD. If you pick the right line in the right checkpoint, you may be able to avoid the MMWs. | 330p | 10 | |
| UA | C1 | 2012-12-23 | It seemed that everyone was lining up at the security checkpoint in the middle of terminal C. I walked to the farthest right point, and went to checkpoint C1, which was divided into 2 lines. / Line1 I saw was going through mainly metal detectors, line 2 was mainly using body scanners with some random person being picked to go through the metal detector. / I chose line 1 and that line barely moved. My other friend went through line2 and even though we started both lines at the same time, he got to the ID point check way before me, and I had barely made any progress in line 1. / I switched to line 2 because my flight's departure time was getting closer. Once I passed the ID checkpoint, I saw a line that was going only through the metal detector but a tsa goon told me to go to the other line, which was being forced to go through the body scanner. I was told to go through it, and I politely asked for a pat down. 5 minutes later finally somebody came to get me, and it was a young black guy who was actually very nice. / He did his job very fast and I was out of there in no time. Surprising as I expected some mean TSA person to do the pat down, but it went very smoothly. | 410p | 30 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-12-13 | Very, very long lines. TSA stubbornly used only MMWs; long wait times. Not a good time to go through checkpoint., | 450p | 30 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-12-06 | Stupid TSA as usual. Retaliation of bag check for opting out. | 450p | 20 | |
| UA | C | 2012-12-01 | only two lines open. One with scanner, one without. simply took family through the metal detector lane (which, by the way, every single employee I saw go through the checkpoint lined up at, even if the MMW line was shorter.) | 200p | 20 | |
| UA | C | 2012-12-01 | only two lines open. One with scanner, one without. simply took family through the metal detector lane (which, by the way, every single employee I saw go through the checkpoint lined up at, even if the MMW line was shorter.) | 200p | 20 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-11-29 | Very, very long lines. TSA stubbornly used only MMWs; long wait times. Not a good time to go through checkpoint., | 450p | 35 | |
| UA | C1 | 2012-11-23 | It seemed that everyone was lining up at the security checkpoint in the middle of terminal C. I walked to the farthest right point, and went to checkpoint C1, which was divided into 2 lines. / Line1 I saw was going through mainly metal detectors, line 2 was mainly using body scanners with some random person being picked to go through the metal detector. / I chose line 1 and that line barely moved. My other friend went through line2 and even though we started both lines at the same time, he got to the ID point check way before me, and I had barely made any progress in line 1. / I switched to line 2 because my flight's departure time was getting closer. Once I passed the ID checkpoint, I saw a line that was going only through the metal detector but a tsa goon told me to go to the other line, which was being forced to go through the body scanner. I was told to go through it, and I politely asked for a pat down. 5 minutes later finally somebody came to get me, and it was a young black guy who was actually very nice. / He did his job very fast and I was out of there in no time. Surprising as I expected some mean TSA person to do the pat down, but it went very smoothly. | 410p | ||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-11-15 | Groper summoned supervisor when I wouldn't "follow orders". Aggressive grope when supervisor told him to continue his job. | 1250p | 4 | |
| AA | 2 | 2012-10-21 | 45 - 60 mins to get through security, even via Priority Access line. Only 2 lanes open. | 1250p | ||
| UA | c | 2012-10-21 | old school today, nice and easy | 730a | 5 | |
| UA | A1/A2 | 2012-10-15 | For once airlines were not at fault for the delays. Security check lines were extremely long compared to every other Monday morning. | 620a | 40 | |
| AA | Gate 32 | 2012-10-12 | Checkpoint at a standstill for 6 minuts, but no idea why. With the crush of people, easy enough to head down the hall to the WTMD & by-pass the NoS. | 1050a | 19 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-10-05 | Only way to go through WTMD is to have kids or when MMW is being "recalibrated". | 440a | 6 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-09-20 | Today the "groper" didn't need to pat down my ID and BP; but had to pat down my hair. GRRRR. | 1240p | 2 | |
| B6 | A21 | 2012-09-13 | WTMD only | 920a | 8 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2012-09-13 | Light passenger load; groper had to "feel" my hair (shudder) | 100p | 4 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 - 47 | 2012-08-31 | Elite TDC line goes fast; regular line has 45 or so people waiting. Two LTSOs standing there watching long line; neither could be bothered to pick up a magic pen and light and do something about customer service. Disgusting. | 450a | 20 | |
| B6 | Terminal A Gates 20-28 | 2012-08-22 | Line was slow, but there weren't any scanners. | 920p | 10 | |
| UA | C3, C2 | 2012-08-20 | We were waiting to go through security at the C2 checkpoint, and there we noticed that there was one line that led to the the MMW, while 3 others had the WTMD; however, as we waited there, we then were told to go to the C3 checkpoint. The C3 checkpoint had the same setup. The TSA person who checked your ID sometimes would tell you which line to go, but you could choose the line, and also, at C3, there was just one MMW being used. I chose the WTMD and the whole process was painless, which was surprising because I think about 1 year ago I flew through EWR, and they were corraling people to go through the MMW; fortunately that one time, I was told to go through the WTMD, but today I chose what line to go through without having to interact with the TSA clowns. | 110p | 5 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 - 47 | 2012-08-17 | Every so often, TSA would let people go through WTMD when MMW line got "long", but there was little rhyme/reason to how "long" the MMW line would get before the switch was allowed. | 510a | 5 | |
| AA | 2012-08-11 | Long slow line for the single checkpoint open, complicated by a group of non-English speaking tourists who didn't understand why they had to strip to go thru 'security' here. Bin pusher yelling any electronic 'bigger than a cell phone' must be in a bin by itself-left my iPad in the bag w/o issue. Got another false positive from Gumby, though... | 750a | 10 | ||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 -47 | 2012-07-27 | Long lines with just two lanes open, all going to MMW. 3 TSOs standing by lines, watching; but obviously it would violate some "SSI" rule if they were to have opened another lane. Had to opt out; while in that process, observed 85% or more of MMW pax having to be patted down, and an airline pilot also had to have full patdown! | 600a | 15 | |
| UA | C-1 Terminal C | 2012-07-23 | L3 ProVision ATD MMW in one lane, you can try to go to another lane but TSA staff will usually tell you what lane to go to. | |||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 -47 | 2012-07-20 | Normal nonsense; more than 1/2 of people going through MMW had to have patdowns. I opted out. | 500a | 5 | |
| Int'l | Terminal B Gates 60-68 | 2012-07-07 | Children 12 and under, and one parent were allowed through WTMD, everyone else went through MMW. | 650p | 45 | |
| AS | B40-47 | 2012-07-04 | WTMD opened occasionally as nearly all through MMW got pat downs. Never have I seen so many people through a metal detector that quickly. | 400p | 7 | |
| UA | C2 | 2012-07-02 | Priority access lane on right has metal detector only. The smurfs were forcing everyone in the left-hand lane through the MMW scanner. At a very busy time, this might be an easy self-opt-out because there are about five lanes and only one MMW scanner here. | 630p | 15 | |
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 -47 | 2012-06-29 | Only two lanes open; all pax being "sent" to MMW. | 450a | 5 | |
| UA | C-1 | 2012-06-27 | 1150a | 20 | ||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40 -47 | 2012-06-22 | Long lines with just two lanes open, all going to MMW. TSA finally opened third lane as WTMD only, so SDOO was easy for that short interval. | 500a | 10 | |
| UA | C2 | 2012-06-16 | One MMW on the far left. Very easy to avoid, especially in the Premier line. | 220p | 10 | |
| AA | A (30-39) | 2012-06-04 | The priority/first class line fed into metal detectors only. I couldn't see what the regular line was using. | 1100a | 5 | |
| Int'l | Terminal B Gates 50-58 | 2012-05-28 | Only flight crew and children didn't have to go through scanner. Opt out went smoothly. | 640a | 3 | |
| AA | 2012-05-25 | The good news is the smurfs finally decided to sanitize the floor of the NoS-the bad is they didn't wait for it to dry before using it. | 5 | |||
| AS | B-1 | 2012-05-19 | Told TSA operator that I couldn't llift my arm above my head in "the pose" (due to bone spur in shoulder). Was sent through WTMD without any further questions. | 700a | ||
| DL | B-1 (gates 40 - 47) | 2012-05-18 | Same old, same old. EWR is a joke. | 510a | 5 | |
| DL | B-1 (gates 40 - 47) | 2012-05-10 | No WTMD option. | 1140a | 2 | |
| AA | A30 | 2012-05-09 | 19 mims just to get to single ID checker who was writing a novel on every BP. They finally opened a 2nd CP, which was WTMD only, but the moat dragon was insisting on seeing everyone's BP a 2nd time which wasted another 12 mins of my life. | 650a | 22 | |
| DL | B-1 (gates 40 - 47) | 2012-05-04 | Same stupid stuff. | 710a | 5 | |
| DL | B-1 (gates 40 - 47) | 2012-04-12 | Both MMWs in use; no WTMD except for the privileged classes (airline employees). | 450p | 10 | |
| CO | C1 | 2012-04-07 | Husband, 14yo daughter through scanner, self, 10yo daughter thru WTMD. All WTMDs roped off. | 1200p | ||
| DL | B-1 | 2012-03-09 | Both MMW in use; SDOO not possible. Leraned that TSOs at this location don't like to hear medical terms for male genitalia. | 520a | 15 | |
| CO | C-2 | 2012-01-02 | Elite Access is WTMD only; otherwise, one scanner and one metal detector | |||
| Int'l | B60-B68 | 2011-12-30 | Left lane seemed to lead to WTMD, but passengers in that lane were (more or less randomly?) funneled to either WTMD or MMW, and passengers in other lanes were sometimes directed to the WTMD. TSA droid rudely yelled "Hands up!" at the pornoscanned. | 400p | 15 | |
| Int'l | B 60-69 | 2011-12-25 | Some go to metal dectors, others sent to MMW. Grope-down was tolerable, but annoying. | |||
| DL | Terminal B 40-47 | 2011-12-20 | Was asked by TSA to do the body scanner, I looked at them confused and they let me just walk through the metal detector w/o a pat down, I was running late for my flight though and grabbed my stuff before they could even ask for a pat down :X Got on the flight w/o incident. | 200p | 0 | |
| CO | A | 2011-12-09 | Annoyingly long lines in narrow corridor, but no NoS. | 700p | 15 | |
| DL | Terminal B, Gates 40-47 | 2011-11-03 | Three lanes open; one WTMD only; two to WTMD/MMW combination | |||
| CO | C-2 | 2011-10-31 | Scanners not in use. Passengers unmolested today. Only good thing about flying out of Newark. | |||
| AS | B40-47 | 2011-10-25 | left lane was metal det i think. i mistakenly chose right lane and it was a mmw i think. groping was quick and efficient surprisingly | |||
| Other | Gates A10-A18 | 2011-10-07 | L3 Provision MMW at lane closest to security entrance, most sent through it but some sent to the back lanes that have WTMDs | |||
| CO | C-1 | 2011-09-26 | No cancer machine visible at checkpoint. Puffer in the middle lane | |||
| DL | Terminal B, gates 40-47 | 2011-09-22 | Imaging scanners roped off; not in use. TSA supervisor suffered from "I have authority and you will respect me" syndrome and made the security check a real problem. | |||
| DL | B, gates 40 - 47 | 2011-08-26 | Came through at 7:30 am. Scanners roped off; two lanes open, both going to same WTMD. My experience with EWR on Thursday afternoons lately has been three lanes open, all going through WTMDs (scanners have been roped off for a few weeks now). | |||
| Int'l | B, Gates 60-68 | 2011-08-05 | Fast track (C class, F class and FQTV) usually gets just metal detector | |||
| CO | A | 2011-08-04 | Several security lines, no scopes in view. | |||
| DL | B - for gates 40-47 | 2011-08-01 | 2 scanners, 1 WTMD. Everyone was in one line and it looked like every third person was being sent through the MMW. Then the single line got long and the TSA dude pulled the entire front half of the line over to another conveyor belt and all of those people went through the scanner. | |||
| UA | 2011-07-30 | |||||
| UA | C / International | 2011-07-30 | MMW and WTMD; chose your own adventure. | |||
| CO | Terminal C, 70-99 | 2011-07-18 | only one scanner, which was roped off behind center metal detector | |||
| AA | A 30-39 | 2011-07-05 | One MMW and one WTMD. Seems like every other passenger or every third person though screeners were nice. | |||
| AA | A 30-39 | 2011-06-06 | ||||
| DL | B | 2011-06-04 | each checkpoint had mm wave in use with "random" passengers selected to go through it. "Random" does not mean "arbitrary." People might consider asking what probably distribution is used to choose. | |||
| CO | Terminal C, Checkpoint C-3 | 2011-05-30 | Checkpoint C-3: Elite Access WTMD only, but general line fed into MMW (one unit present) with overflow to WTMD; Checkpoint C-2 (observed from secure side): most appeared to fed be into MMW (one unit present) with overflow to WTMD; Checkpoint C-1 (observed from secure side): WTMD only, MMW (one unit present) roped off | |||
| Int'l | Terminal B Gates 50-58 | 2011-05-28 | 6:30am - status changed from blue to yellow just after I got through | |||
| CO | Checkpoint 3, terminal C | 2011-05-11 | Elite checkpoint, 2 lanes choose your own adventure, metal detectors to left and naked scanner to the right | |||
| Terminal c | 2011-05-06 | Saw mostly wtmd through terminal c with one rape i scan.. Also noticed a groping of a female pax with her child by her side looking confused. Penalty boxes everywhere | ||||
| B6 | A Gates 20-28 | 2011-04-04 | No scanner machines of any type at this checkpoint. Did notice a Rape-I-Scan Millimeter scanner at A Gates 1-20 but it was blocked off and not in use. | |||
| CO | Terminal C, Checkpoint C1 | 2011-02-22 | Scanner in the middle, not being used. | |||
| All | Gates A10-A18 | 2011-02-21 | Saw one Provision millimeter wave scanner at the lane closest to the checkpoint entrance on my way out. No other lanes open at the time (about 5 PM, 2/21) | |||
| CO | c all check points | 2011-02-03 | At each of the 3 security points for terminal C I saw 1 scanner at each but none were in use. They were roped off. | |||
| US | 2011-01-14 | |||||
| CO | Gates C70-C99 | 2011-01-11 | Numerous Rapiscan backscatters in place. IMPOSSIBLE to avoid at 9 AM on 1/11, no other lanes open during busy times. | |||
| CO | Terminal C Checkpooint 2 | 2011-01-09 | ||||
| CO | Terminal C Security Checkpoint 3 | 2011-01-09 | ||||
| All | Terminal A-Gates A20-A22 | 2011-01-07 | machines in one lane, furthest to left. hard to avoid the machine lane because there are people from gateway frontline that makes every one use the shortest line to keep the flow. | |||
| UA | Terminal A Gates 10-18 | 2010-12-23 | No scanners, but my shampoo was stolen from me in front of my eyes because who knows what could be done with organic shampoo. The funny thing is that I still couldve gotten it past security. | |||
| terminal A | 2010-12-21 | Scanners roped off, not in use | ||||
| International | Terminal B, towards international departures | 2010-12-20 | ||||
| international | 2010-12-04 | Scanners installed, not in use | ||||
| CO | C | 2010-09-20 | No machines visible or in use. | |||
| US | Terminal A Gates 30-39 | 0000-06-14 | ||||
| terminal C | 0000-00-00 | No scanners | ||||
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