Body Scanners Coming To Palm Springs International Airport

Full body scanners are now in operation at Ontario International Airport and soon they’ll be coming to Palm Springs International Airport.

Installation is underway and if there are no hang-ups passengers flying out of Palm Springs could be scanned as early as next week, just in time for the Christmas rush.

If someone is randomly selected to take a body scan they have the option to instead undergo an enhanced personal pat-down by a TSA agent.

More and more passengers are beginning to accept the fact that the next time they fly out of Palm Springs they may have to make a choice.

“I am just more concerned about flights being safe,” said Ed Nestorowicz, a part-time Indio resident who was flying to Calgary. “That I get there and back safely and if that’s what it means I have to do, then that’s what I have to do.”

Rancho Mirage resident Leslie O’Donohue was flying off for Italy. She believes people that resist security measures don’t belong at the airport.

“My feeling somebody that doesn’t want to go through those procedures should step out of line and go some other way. On the train or on the bus or drive or something.”

There’s no word how many scanners will be operating in Palm Springs.

Nationwide, 75 airports are using 464 body scanners.