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| Status | Airline | Checkpoint | Date | Notes | Time | Wait |
| UA | Terminal 2 | 2013-03-01 | No wait at this sleepy airport at 7 pm on Friday night. Was glad to see the BKSX are gone, as I had a bad experience here with a snotty female TSA agent while opting out of BKSX here few years ago (Agent Attitude came over from another area and got in my face and aggressively accused me of "escalating" after I had very calmly told the male agent in my line that I preferred the pat down.) (And lady, you'll know when I'm actually escalating, trust me.) In any case, there are now about five separate lines here, each of which looks to have both WTMD and MMW. Tonight, with literally no traffic (one guy ahead of me in line as i walked up) -- all lines were roped off, funneling everyone to line 3. Line 3 WTMG was blocked off - everyone through MMW. I am OK with MMW, so did not get to re-assess the opt-out experience. | 700p | 2 | |
| AA | Terminal 3, South Checkpoint | 2012-12-20 | 4 lanes, metal detector only. | 620a | 10 | |
| WN | T4 D | 2012-12-07 | The machine in the rightmost lane wasn't running. | 730a | ||
| DL | 3 | 2012-12-04 | No problems passing thru the Metal Detector, process took about 15 minutes on line | |||
| WN | Terminal 4, checkpoint D | 2012-10-14 | Family lane seemed to be closed. Opened the WTMD on the left when the line got backed up. My husband got the WTMD, I got waved to the NOS. took a long time to get a female officer for the opt out, but she was very professional once she arrived. | 1130a | ||
| AS | Terminal 2 | 2012-10-13 | Almost all funneled to the Rape-i-Scan. Boyfriend and I both opted out. His pat down was professional and courteous. I (female) ended up with Nurse Ratchet for pat down. | 11a | 5 | |
| DL | Terminal 3 North | 2012-09-26 | Terminal 3 North and South are still WTMD only. No wait and TSA was friendly. Too bad all airport terminals aren't like this! | 330p | 0 | |
| AS | 2 | 2012-08-16 | Cordial staff, quick on the pat-down. Lanes 3 and 4 open, both with backscatters | 230p | 1 | |
| UA | Terminal 2 | 2012-08-06 | Backscatter in Lane 4, a bit confusing because lane 3 and 4 are on either side of one aisle, & even though there was only one other person going through security of course they wouldn't let me switch when I realized my mistake. | 230p | 0 | |
| DL | Terminal 3 | 2012-07-18 | Checkpoint for gates 15-26, 2 lanes, metal detectors only. | 600a | ~10 | |
| DL | Terminal 3 (gate 23 and lower) | 2012-07-06 | TSA continues its stupidity with "random" hand swabs for magic explosive residue. Even after my carryon bags cleared with no problems. Guess they weren't satisfied that they didn't find a terrorist tonite. | 920p | ||
| US | 4-A | 2012-06-07 | Left lane had at least some travelers goin through a back scatter machine. Right lane was going to a WTMD for all. | 1040p | 8 | |
| AA | T3 | 2012-05-24 | got to love T3 - Metal detector only | 700a | ||
| US | T1 - B | 2012-05-05 | Everyone through BSX. Very thorough groping - hair patdown, collar check, hands in pants | 630a | 5 | |
| DL | T3 | 2012-05-01 | Metal dector only for Delta (what about other side of T3, Hawaiian, etc?) Only one lane open with obnoxious TSA chimp barking orders, while crowd laughing at him. Quite funny. | 100p | 20 | |
| US | 4-A | 2012-04-27 | Most lines had X-ray in use for most passengers. Right lane had X-ray roped off. Choose your own adventure. Right after I chose the right hand lane they roped the entire lane off (I think they were closing it for the shift). | 340p | 0 | |
| US | 4-A | 2012-04-15 | Xray at apparently all lines, but random whether you go through xray or WTMD. They seem to have shut down the left-lane WTMD-only option. | 400p | 5 | |
| DL | t4 | 2012-03-25 | Wow I can tell u have many persoanl problems and alot of time on your hands . Read the sins and follow directions stupid then you will have no problems. TSA has never givin me a problem and I fly once a moth. Take a bus or walk if you dont like it because75% of us do!!! See ya chumps!!! | |||
| DL | T3 | 2012-03-20 | No scanners!! WTMD only | |||
| US | T4, A | 2012-03-18 | Far left lane led to WTMD, but mainly it was elites being funneled there. I snuck in anyway and pretended I didn't know any better. | 810p | 5 | |
| US | 4-A | 2012-03-09 | 4 lanes, choose your own is furthest to the left | 650p | ||
| US | T4, checkpoint C | 2012-03-06 | everyone forced through BKSX, WTMD wasn't even turned on | 1100a | 0 | |
| US | Terminal 4, Checkpoint A | 2012-02-09 | 1 line feeds to 4-5 TSA boarding pass screeners, so you get whoever's free and calls you over - hard to self-select unless two are free at the same time. I was called by the guy on the far right, who hand-swabbed me. Past him there were two lane options - 5 and 6, both with MD and Backscatter. I chose 5 as i could see that the BCKSX was roped off and not in use. All lanes appears to have both MD and BS, looked like most BS were not in use, but i was not able to see all lanes. | 200p | 10 | |
| WN | T4 - Checkpoint C | 2012-01-15 | Between orange and red - most, but not all, passengers directed to BKSX. Opted out and was on my way after pat-down in five minutes. Polite and professional staff. | 1140a | 10 | |
| US | 4/A | 2011-12-28 | Xray closed at lane 6 on right. | 1200p | 5 | |
| US | B gates | 2011-12-26 | 4 lanes open, 3 w/NoS as primary. NoS on the far left side blocked off, so easy to opt-out. | 810a | 4 | |
| US | Term 4, gate b | 2011-12-26 | herding everyone to porno, if you try the metal detector they pull you out for the backscatter | |||
| B6 | 3 north | 2011-12-22 | 1050p | 0 | ||
| UA | 2 | 2011-12-04 | UA at PHX. At least they were friendly while they violated my rights. | 810p | 0 | |
| DL | 3 | 2011-12-04 | All WTMD here. | |||
| DL | 3 | 2011-12-02 | Only WTMD at this checkpoint. | |||
| B6 | 3 | 2011-11-22 | ||||
| US | Terminal 4 | 2011-11-05 | No choice around 6pm. | |||
| AA | 3 Gate | 2011-10-27 | Gates 2-9 also include Hawaiian Air and Jetblue | |||
| WN | Terminal 4 Checkpoint C | 2011-10-14 | MD available. Chose that line. No hassle. | |||
| WN | 2 | 2011-09-18 | Forced at least 80% through full-body scanners. | |||
| DL | 3 | 2011-08-18 | gotta love terminal 3 at phx | |||
| UA | 2 | 2011-07-31 | ||||
| AA | 3 | 2011-07-06 | Only metal detectors—no scanners visible | |||
| DL | Terminal 3 | 2011-06-30 | Only metal detectors that I could see, but only 1 lane was open. | |||
| US | A | 2011-05-19 | chose the no naked machine line, no tsa officials stopped me | |||
| UA | 2 | 2011-05-08 | All through scanners around 5 AM. | |||
| UA | 2 | 2011-05-08 | All through scanners around 5 AM. | |||
| UA | 2 | 2011-05-08 | All through scanners around 5 AM. | |||
| US | 4A | 2011-04-28 | ||||
| UA | Terminal 2 | 2011-04-25 | Screeners slow and disorganized. TSA supervisors abusive. TSA nightmare! | |||
| WN | Terminal 4, Concourse D | 2011-04-25 | At about 5 pm, there were two lines, regular metal detector on the left, backscatter x-ray on the right, you could choose your own lane. No issues, TSA personnel were polite. | |||
| US | A/B | 2011-04-01 | 50-50 between use of bs/radiation and magnetometer. I elected a pat-down from a man who was obviously a beginner, but very nice about it. | |||
| US | Terminal 4 A | 2011-03-11 | The opt-out agent was quite polite. The wait was about 2 minutes, and I had to stand near the machine. I was unable to see my items during that time. | |||
| US | Terminal 4 D | 2011-02-26 | At 6 AM there was concerted effort to force you into BS....we declined, asked for patdown, and got no cooperation to have our items in our view. Was told "you asked for the opt out, you have to wait." They made sure that we had to stand right near the BS machine while waiting. | |||
| AA | South CP Term 3 | 2011-02-19 | ||||
| US | 1 (US Airways) | 2011-02-13 | All lanes that I could see had backscatter roped off. Elite line had chair and rope in front of scanner. | |||
| DL | DL or Hawai'ian or AA | 2011-01-26 | ||||
| Int'l | Terminal 4 | 2011-01-17 | ||||
| US | checkpoint a | 2011-01-02 | lines 2 and 4 both led to a RAPE-I-scan that was roped off. the other machines were probably also roped off. | |||
| US | a | 2011-01-01 | ||||
| UA | Terminal 2 | 2010-12-27 | ||||
| UA | Terminal 2 | 2010-12-27 | ||||
| DL | Terminal 3, Delta concourse | 2010-12-21 | I was an arriving passenger, and noted status as I was leaving; no scanner at that one. no observation of other checkpoints | |||
| WN | 4C | 0000-10-14 | ||||
| all | 0000-00-00 | Machines installed, not in use | ||||
| UA | 0000-00-00 | machine in use | ||||
| UA | 1 | 0000-00-00 | tsa can be benign here or horrible. hit and miss. just try being cordial and they may allow sdoo | |||
| all | Terminal 4 | 0000-00-00 | One machine installed, doesn't seem to be in use. If you fail the metal detector you get a grope | |||
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