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Avoid These Airports

Don’t like the idea of choos­ing between a full-body scan­ner and an “enhanced pat­down” by a TSA thug? You don’t have to avoid fly­ing; you just have to avoid fly­ing out of the air­ports that use full-body scan­ners (list below from Jaunted.com as of 16 Sep­tem­ber 2010; check back there before you make your reservations—there are more every day).

Amer­i­cans aren’t yet ready to take up arms and start exe­cut­ing TSA mall­cops en masse; few of us will even stop fly­ing, even at the cost of being sex­u­ally assaulted (h/t Sim­ple Jus­tice); most of us are con­tent, as long as there’s no math involved, to be unques­tion­ingly com­pli­ant. But if enough of those who still must fly were to take our busi­ness else­where, eschew­ing air­ports with full-body scan­ners (and the air­lines that fly out of those air­ports) for those with­out, some of the peo­ple who run this coun­try (by which I mean the cor­po­ra­tions) might feel enough of a finan­cial sting to put a leash on TSA.

(Observe: no full-body scan­ners at JFK or LGA, or at EWR yet. Hmm. But hell­ish third-world back­wa­ter Laredo has ‘em, as do McAllen, Har­lin­gen and Rochester. The point? We’re prob­a­bly not going to miss much right now by not fly­ing out of body-scanner airports.)

DOMESTIC AIRPORTS:
· Albu­querque Inter­na­tional Air­port (ABQ)
· Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Air­port (ATL)
· Baltimore-Washington Inter­na­tional (BWI)
· Boise Air­port (BOI)
· Boston-Logan Inter­na­tional (BOS)
· Brownsville-South Padre Island Air­port (BRO)
· Buffalo-Niagara Inter­na­tional (BUF)
· Char­lotte Dou­glas Inter­na­tional (CLT)
· Chicago-O’Hare Air­port (ORD)
· Colum­bus Inter­na­tional Air­port (CMH)
· Cor­pus Christi Inter­na­tional Air­port (CRP)
· Dallas/Ft. Worth Air­port (DFW)
· Den­ver Inter­na­tional Air­port (DEN)
· Detroit Metro Wayne County Air­port (DTW)
· Har­ris­burg Inter­na­tional Air­port (HIA)
· Indi­anapo­lis Inter­na­tional Air­port (IND)
· Jack­sonville Inter­na­tional Air­port (JAX)
· Laredo Inter­na­tional Air­port (LRD)
· Las Vegas-McCarran Air­port (LAS)
· Los Ange­les Inter­na­tional Air­port (LAX)
· McAllen-Miller Inter­na­tional Air­port (MFE)
· Mem­phis Inter­na­tional Air­port (MEM)
· Miami Inter­na­tional Air­port (MIA)
· Mil­wau­kee Mitchell Air­port (MKE)
· Nashville Inter­na­tional AIr­port (BNA)
· Phoenix Sky Har­bor (PHX)
· Pitts­burgh Inter­na­tional Air­port (PIT)
· Providence-T.F. Green Inter­na­tional (PVD)
· Raleigh-Durham Inter­na­tional Air­port (RDU)
· Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Air­port (RIC)
· Rochester Inter­na­tional Air­port (RST)
· Salt Lake City Inter­na­tional Air­port (SLC)
· San Diego Inter­na­tional Air­port (SAN)
· San Fran­cisco Inter­na­tional Air­port (SFO)
· Tampa Inter­na­tional Air­port (TPA)
· Tulsa Inter­na­tional Air­port (TUL)
· Val­ley Inter­na­tional Air­port (HRL)
· Wash­ing­ton DC’s Rea­gan Air­port (DCA)

AIRPORTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES:
· Amsterdam-Schipol Air­port (AMS)
· Gimhae/Busan Inter­na­tional (PUS)
· Gimpo/Seoul Inter­na­tional (GMP)
· Jeju Inter­na­tional (CJU)
· London-Heathrow (LHR)
· Man­ches­ter Air­port (MAN)
· Moscow-Sheremetyevo Inter­na­tional (SVO)
· Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG)
· Regina Inter­na­tional Air­port (YQR)
· Rome-Leonardo da Vinci/Fiumicino (FCO)
· Toronto Pear­son Inter­na­tional (YYZ)
· Tokyo-Narita Inter­na­tional (NRT) *Trial period
· Van­cou­ver Inter­na­tional (YVR)

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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3 Responses to “Avoid These Airports”

  1. David in Friendswood says:
    16 November 2010 at 7:52 pm

    I wouldn’t count on those lists to be up to date. John “don’t touch my junk” Tyner had relied on one when he went to the air­port: I had done my research on the TSA’s web­site prior to trav­el­ing to see if SAN had them. From all indi­ca­tions, they did not. When I arrived at the secu­rity line, I found that the TSA’s web­site was out of date. SAN does in fact uti­lize backscat­ter x-ray machines.

    from his blog.

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    • Mark Bennett says:
      16 November 2010 at 8:51 pm

      Hm.

      I gather, from the lack of an author­i­ta­tive crowd­sourced list of air­ports using the scan­ners, that peo­ple really don’t care whether they get scanned or groped.

      Baa.

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  2. Tom Streeter says:
    21 November 2010 at 3:39 pm

    I can attest that Cincinnati-Northern KY (CVG) has them.

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