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At AMS[0] you can opt-out, I've done so every time I went through there. They will look at you funny, ask you why, and you will be patted down, but they will al

• dpark 14y ago
  I wish I'd known that. I had to go through one in Amstersam last month. That's the first and only time I've ever gone through one, despite flying a dozen of times since they were installed in the US. They're generally not hard to avoid in the US. Most airports have at least one line where they aren't being used (often the line nearest to the first-class/priority ID-check line). It's not hard to just get in that line after the ID check. The one time I've been told to go through the backscatter scanner (in the US), I told the agent I wanted to opt out, and she just directed me through the metal detector and that was the end.