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Status	Airline	Checkpoint	Date	Notes	Time	Wait
	AA	D	2013-06-08	several passengers were allowed to walk through metal detectors, but I was told to go through the backscatter machine. I refused and asked to walk through metal detector. My request was denied and I was given the patdown instead. I guess my dreads looked suspicious to TSA-- couldn't help but notice that mostly white and asian people were allowed to walk through the metal detectors...	720p
	AA	International to domestic	2013-05-27	Transferring from international to domestic is not a nice experience. It seems every government employee is on some kind of power trip. Be ready for extremely rude TSA, customs people that think they can ask any detailed question about your life, etc. For re-entering security for domestic flights, at E gates there are only scanners and the TSA is incredibly incompetent and rude. After this, we did see a security checkpoint that was not using any scanners at that time, though. MIA is rife with TSA employees walking around on the cell phones doing nothing, wasting our money.	6p	15
	All	All	2013-05-03	Who protects us from the TSA dum-dums? Only sites like this!
	AA	Int'l to domestic connections	2013-04-16	All WTMD, no naked scanners, going from customer to D gates	600p
	DL	H	2012-12-17	There is a Metal Detector, which some folks got to use, but when we tried to use it, they tried to force us into the cancer box...we refused for medical reasons, and were patted down. They were asking folks at the Metal Detect "do you have anything in your pockets", seems so that they could force you into the radiation and get no anomalies and skew the "voluntarily" use this statistics
	UA	Concourse G	2012-11-29	There was only one lane open and the WTMD was roped off. All passengers were being funneled through the MMW scanner. After placing my bags on the conveyer belt for the bag scanner I informed the agent that I would be opting out. She asked me to wait and then another agent escorted me to the pat down area. The frisking was done professionally and he was pleasant. aAbouut 5 min later I was on my way to the gate.	630a	5
	AA	D Gates	2012-07-09	2 lanes open. Left side was WTMD and right was MMW. I waited in the MMW line, then switched over to lane 1 after my ID was checked. The guard (let's not call them "officers" please), was OK with me switching to the WTMD line.	830p
	AA	Checkpoint 1	2012-04-23	35 minutes just to get to the ID checker (checkpoint 2 even worse). Everyone except employees, crew, & kids forced thru the 1 NoS at this checkpoint .	930a	40
	AA	D/E Checkpoint In Front of Hotel	2012-04-17	There was no line to get to the ID checker. After that, two lanes were in use, one with the MMW wave and a WTMD only lane for elites. The MMW wave lane was backing up so I and many others just walked over to the less crowded elite lane. TSA agents didn't mind. Very convenient if you are staying at the landside Miami Airport hotel. You check out, walk out of the lobby and the checkpoint is right there.	1230p	5
	DL	Concourse H	2012-03-25	MMW in use for all passengers. But, TSA announced, "Needs recalibrating" as pax in front of me was going to use it, so we both got to use the WTMD (didn't have to opt out!). MMW shut down for 5 minutes, then back in operation after I went through.	500a	2
	AA	E	2012-03-18	All lines except Elite line were MMW-only. Pat-down was professional and fairly quick, and TSA did not make a big deal of fliers who opted-out.	650p	20
	AA	E	2012-03-02	E checkpoint (where international pax go off the elevator) was forcing everybody through MMW, so I used another checkpoint	1200p
	AA	non-status checkpoint	2012-03-02	Long line, but moved quickly because they were actually using the WTMDs. I found it ironic that I had selected a WTMD-only line and was entertained by a video production from the TSA Ministerium für Volksaufklärung stating that I had the right to opt out of so-called "advanced" imaging technology. I was opting out by using the line without one, so take that John Pistole!	230p
	AA	Priority access	2012-03-02	Line at priority checkpoint was short, but all pax were forced through MMW, with TSA thugs making it clear that it was MMW or groping.	1210p
	CO	H	2011-12-15	Both WTMD roped off, only MMW available. Walked through WTMD when I opted out.	p	5
	AA	D2	2011-12-11	Lanes 1 and 3 WTMD. Lanes 2 and 4 MMW.	1130a
	AA	D by AA counters	2011-11-29	99% sent through
	DL	H	2011-10-07	WTMD only. MMW roped off. If you walk through the checkpoint leading to Concourse J in the middle of the terminal, they were randomly sellecting people for MWW.
	DL	H	2011-09-10	WTMD in use only, nude-o-scope blocked off
	DL	H	2011-08-04	It was self select.
	US	H/J	2011-07-06	There was one MMW/WTMD pair running around late afternoon. There were two lines -- one for each -- but the WTMD line was much longer, so they were pulling people from the WTMD line as the MMW line ran out of victims.
	AA	D	2011-07-01	There were long lines at Checkpoint #2, so we were directed to Checkpoint #1 by a helpful airport person. Checkpoint #2 appeared to have two MMW/WTMD pairs, but I couldn't easily see how they were selecting people. Checkpoint #1 was much better; there was one MMW in the middle, with a WTMD to the left (employee/crew line?) and another to the right. It was easy enough to self-select the line to the right.
	AA	D Gates, near D10	2011-04-09	Went through about 0900. They held a ridiculous "Bravo" "Freeze Tag" exercise while I was waiting in line, which provided the entertainment. There was an elite ID check line and a steerage ID check line. Either line fed you into a system of four lines -- two with WTMDs and two with MWW Pornoscopes. The left pair's MMW was roped off. The right side pair had the MMW operating, but only those who were in that lane got picked. It was easy to just pick the right lane and avoid the strip search.
	DL	Delta	2011-03-24	Passenger in front of me was scanned, but I was not.
	AA	International transfer to domestic	2011-03-15	Middle line had no xray
	AA	E	2011-02-22
	DL	H/J	2011-02-09	Some lines had mm wave scanners, others did not. Easy to move to a line without them.
	Int'l	E, International	2011-01-26	At first only the two lines outer were open with the scanners, but as more flights landed at once they opened all four lines, the middle two just used the metal detectors.
	AA	D	2010-12-27	scanners not in use
	AA	D3	0000-08-03	Long lines but not hassled. Polite bilingual screeners.
			0000-00-00	no scanners visible
			0000-00-00	aa terms D & E are sometimes in use
	AA		0000-00-00	some passengers
		E, int'l	0000-00-00	scanners not in use