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A letter won't excuse them from being scanned or patted down, so what's the point?
That documentation is to prove that it's a service animal and not a pet. It doesn't excuse them from being scanned. They both still have to be scanned.
That has nothing to do with being excused from scanning/pat down.
You see, the person with a pacemaker, even with a letter, still gets either patted down or hand wanded. They aren't exempted from scrutiny.
You brought it up, so I thought you had something specific in mind.
No matter who it is, do you expect that they can do a forensics check of a letter in the airport screening area before the passenger misses his plane?
That seems like a waste of manpower when the TSA agent isn't going to excuse scanning/pat down regardless of the letter. What's the point of a letter if it doesn't exempt anything?
In the case of the woman in this thread, she would still be subjected to the scan or pat down, even if she had a letter.
I agree that they keep changing their procedures but they don't seem to be changing in the direction of expediting or improving anything.
exemption from screening? where?
I don't think anybody here is talking about exempting one from screening due to one's medical condition. what I'm talking about making your life as painless as possible by having medical documentation so that one does not have to go thru agony and humiliation like this poor woman with a prosthetic breast.