Originally Posted by pilot64golfer

Except MIA, where they made it Jan 15th. Pretty soon they will ask "Are you going to work?" and if you say no, they'll say, well you can only go through in civvies if you are going to work.

TSA (Thousands Standing Around) is the most Jeff'ed up organization I've ever seen. The workers don't know the policy, and they make it up as they go.

I had a TSA person who was letting people go through the metal detector instead of the scanner at one airport. She motioned for me (in civvies) and asked to see my boarding pass. I showed her, and she saw my pilots ID. She told me I had to go through the scanner, and I couldn't go through the metal detector. I said "You just let a bunch of people go through there and then you motioned for me to come through too." Her answer was "We were told that crew can only go through the metal detector in uniform. So since you're crew and not in uniform, you have to go through the scanner.

After I went through I asked and another TSA person said they'd never heard that "crew out of uniform" had to go through the scanner.