TSA Checkpoint A Bridge – Denver International Airport

It seems every time I fly out of Denver to Las Vegas the baggage is searched with out me know about it until either at hotel or hone. TSA act’s like every Americans are the terrorist. They can break into your items without you knowing about. Broken locks to suite case. If your items was damaged there’s no recourse to TSA. File claim, but then are on their watch list to get even. The TSA has failed 80% of airports in America. It’s scary to think that a kid can search you, feel you up, tear up you baggage without you knowing or being there. These so called agents can’t buy a beer but they can play security Agents. This TSA is a scam the real terrorist already in TSA. Doesn’t anyone remember that ⁹⁄₁₁ had help from the a airport. But now everyone thats not Americans push you right thru the check line but no one is checking them. Thanks Uncle Sam, you little hit squad did it again.

I am a 63 male and a regular patron of DIA. I find the experience at concourse A security checkpoint very unpleasant. I find the agents at the scanners and x-​ray machines to have a lot of attitude and very disconnected from travelers. It is also difficult to gather all ones belongs, get you shoes on and make sure you don’t forget anything. The set-​up of the area is NOT supportive to passengers and the whole experience is very hurried especially if you an older person. A survey of passengers regarding this experience can be easily done through a Kiosk located in the airport. Flying used to be a great experience but that is no longer the case.

Always have had to wait longer than most airport security lines. Be prepared to wait in a long line for a long time. I’m not sure why this isn’t more efficient. It is a busy airport but there always seem to be a lot of employees working. All gates must go through the same checkpoint, so it may just be there are too many flyers and not enough workers or lines for them to go through. Very frustrating so find something to keep you busy while you wait.

Pre tsa never open, unhelpful when they are. Why bother, go through the bottom area and avoid this disaster. TSA need to get their !^*# together.

TSA is the biggest waste of tax payer dollars. They recently failed to find 67 out of 70 potentially harmful items in a test. They are super slow, unhelpful, and not good at preventing anything but people making their flights. Let’s not retrain them as the new CEO of TSA wants to do, lets scrap this awful government organization and go to something private that is efficient and effective and, because they are private, have to answer to the bottom line unlike the government.

Standing in A bridge right line for 25min now, have moved 12 ft. Gentleman who was 10 ft behind me in left line passed checkpoint 10 minutes ago. No consistency between lines. Again apparently no quality assurance with TSA.

Excellent job screening my carry-​on luggage for toothpaste, gels and liquids over 2 oz. What a waste of taxpayer money and an even bigger false sense of security that comes along with it.

Let’s just start with the fact that TSA checkpoints, in general, are a miserable waste of tax payer time and resources ($). 90% of those clowns couldn’t catch an AK-​47 that was hanging out of a duffel bag full of C-​4. So with that in mind, Checkpoint A really brings the pain on horrific service and incompetence.
That being said, the least of my expectations is that they could at least be courteous since we’re all paying them to do nothing. Checkpoint A Bridge in Denver gets an F– on that account. I’ve been through at least 50 checkpoints since we started into this régime and the only one that could even come close to matching the misery of this experience is Chicago O’Hare.
My wife and I are not able to go through their scanning machines due to medical issues, so we have to go through the same opt out procedure everywhere we fly. Every person that we dealt with at this checkpoint was rude and unhelpful.
The ID checker could not have been a bigger bitch in the 10 seconds it takes to interact with that station.
The attendant at the scanner, who is supposed to call for someone to perform our opt-​out pat down, flippantly told us that they were busy, so it was going to be a while (without actually calling in for opt-​outs for either of us). She then made us wait by the x-​ray machines while our baggage had gone through and remained unattended, and out of our view, for an extended period of time. That alone should be a fireable offense if this whole charade was actually meant to ensure some level of security.
Then the pat-​down artist insisted on giving me the obligatory science lesson on the backscatter technology because his PhD in Electro-​Physics (which is obviously a requirement to get through the TSA application process given the caliber of the average agent), entitles him to have an opinion on the legitimacy of my need for an opt-​out due to a medical issue that he knows nothing about. Of course things lead to the whole intentional knocking of my genitalia each time that he had an opportunity, as if we were prison buddies.
Thank you, Checkpoint A Bridge of Denver — not only did you provide me with a science lesson and some much-​needed molestation, but you did it with a steady dose of resting bitch-​face attitude. I sure felt much safer on the other side.

I can’t rate the TSA checkpoints based on good experiences because overall it’s a nightmare to travel in America, but of all the TSA checkpoints I’ve gone thru in the States, the one at DIA’s bridge to Terminal A is the least painful. It can be a bit slow, but they are courteous and helpful.

As a new mom, traveling with an infant is hard. When I took off from Denver, I interacted with one of the most rude and inconsiderate TSA employees, Nick. Nick was standing there socializing with another employee and when I asked for his assistance, he was clearly irritated. My question was, will my stroller fit through the machine. He said, «you’re asking me if your stroller will fit?» with some serious attitude. As someone who works there every day, yes… I am asking you a question. I in fact knew that it would not, and was hoping that he could offer assistance in taking the stroller and do the testing in it as I am holding a 6 month old baby. After I said, «really, your going to be rude?» He walked away and said out loud, «figure it out yourself.» As a fellow human being Nick, you are a failure and no matter how much you hate your job, I cannot believe that this is the attitude you would take when a new mom is asking for your assistance.
Thank you to the other employee, Kelley, that did provide assistance and was genuinely a nice human being. You are appreciated!

Denver airport is huge. And being behind a huge crowd of people, scrambling to find the quickest option through security, (yes, there are choices here), we wandering over to this checkpoint. There was almost no people in line, it almost looked closed. I think these dudes must have some sort of contest to see who can get people through the fastest. And I can honestly say, we won.