The TSA is testing a self-service system

The TSA unveiled the country’s first self-service screening system Wednesday at Harry Reid International Airport. Starting on Monday, PreCheck passengers can participate in the pilot program designed to modernize checkpoints and give travelers more autonomy.

During the morning demonstration at the Las Vegas airport, TSA officials compared the new program to self-checkout lanes at the supermarket. Instead of TSA officers ushering passengers through the two-step process, travelers will scan their own bags and themselves. This will allow them to set their own pace and minimize their interactions with TSA employees.

The agency’s staff members will still check IDs and oversee secondary screenings of bags and pat-downs of passengers suspected of carrying banned items.

Officials said the objective is not to accelerate screenings but to improve the passenger experience.

(Photos by Amber Garrett for The Washington Post)

[oddlyjay]

I like how TSA lines are becoming more like "Pay us to leave you alone"

[InsomniacsAnonymous]

There was a missed opportunity to have the pants disappear after the TSA agent said it was like a zoom call.

[dammitdan]

The pose at the magic box was perfection 👍

[MrDooneylooney]

The big scanner thing that scans you picked up my period pad I was wearing once. That was an interaction I'll never forget

[TBDF]

My first time at an airport I saw an ad for a premium service where you just skip the check and it was hilarious. That's how useless the TSA is, you can pay to do whatever you want and still nothing bad happens

[akeleven]

I can go through the line naked and TSA would still pat me. Got lifted off the ground by an enthusiastic TSA woman slapping my crotch. I have a metal knee - the glass box machine insists there's something in my naked elbow. Made an official complaint and got zip nada.

[tobefair]

The line of tsa officers looking at you to make sure you do the self check correctly

[bensteinhauser]

Just a reminder, TSA has always been show security. If someone wants to blow up a plane they can just drive an SUV onto the runway. Imo, the less I have to interact with TSA the better.

[na]

Pre check requires an interview, finger printing, and a background check in advance and is good for a limited time--all for a fee. It's just vetting you in advance, and if you're in a group (or have kids) everyone has to have it, otherwise you're just waiting on the air side of security in stead of the terminal side.
Edit: typo

[ReefMimic]

TSA pass is like $70 a year if you want it every time…

[jademoon]

Someone getting mad and complaining, "I don't want to interact with you idiots, I can do it myself!" just to immediately panic and hit the "help" button when they're left alone, and then turn around and get upset again that they have to talk to "the idiots" who responded to the help button is so real I can't even...

[Benwut]

"It's like a zoom call"
**Anxiety levels rise as fast as goku's power level**

[chopstyx]

Watch a machine ask for a tip at the end

[KameChameleon]

"Match the avatar please"
*goes goblin mode*

[aliabdallah]

I'm Palestinian. I can get pre check and global entry or access or whatever and it'll still take me a millennium to get through TSA.

[uncletiggermclaren]

Just spent two weeks flying around the USA. Standing, waiting in queues to be screened, I saw many people using that service. I never saw anyone held up or stopped by it.
They just smoothly walked through.

[maddiek]

I love living in NZ sometimes. Most regional flights don’t have any security and it’s super fast and easy when there is security. Joys of living in the middle nowhere.

[DrelvanianGuardOffic]

As a self checkout attendant, I can confirm this is just like Self Checkout.
I probably interact with people more at self checkout than I do working on a register. Mostly because the registers at my job like to accuse people of stealing their own phone, keys, or fingers. And then when I clear it for them, the register accuses them of stealing me.

[kyliemoore]

Its like self checkout but its Walmart's self checkout. You go to it because its faster but it takes longer because every item is a "potentially missing scan".

[RhombusOfTheJ]

They’ve been doing the same thing with customs for a while now, not surprising honestly