Long gone are the days during The Golden Age of Travel when you simply bought your ticket and walked right to the gate without any interruption. You could arrive twenty minutes before your flight and still have plenty of time before having to board. All this changed when midair violence began happening. Terrorism has been a problem for airlines and passengers since the 1970’s. Hijackings and bombings became the method of choice for terrorist around the world, and it is a constant and fearful threat because of this airport security has increased in recent years. For this reason, I strongly agree that airport security screening has to be more intense for passengers before boarding a plane. To begin with, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is part of the Department of Homeland Security, and …show more content…
AIT units use millimeter wave imaging technology that bounces harmless electromagnetic waves off the body to create the same generic image for all passengers. It uses Automated Target Recognition (ATR) which eliminates passenger specific images. Therefore, the software will detect threat items and indicate the location on a generic outline of a person that appears on a monitor attached to the unit. It screens passengers for metallic and non-metallic threats which include weapons, explosives, and other objects which can be hidden underneath clothing without having any physical contact. Passengers simply walk into the imaging portal and stand in position and remain still for a few seconds while the technology creates an image in real time. The passenger then exits the opposite side of the portal and collect their belongings. The entire process takes less than a minute. It is safe for all passengers and technology meets national health and safety standards. In fact, since units deployed at airports more than 99 percent of passengers choose to be screened by this