Airlines watch as some passengers protest security

_A Monitor Report Atlanta : Full-body scans at the airport have created a full-scale uproar, but airlines said recently that their customers have not yet shown signs of changing their holiday travel plans because of it. And so far, no passenger at Hartsfield-Jack-son Interna-tional Airport has refused screening and declined to fly, Transportation Safety Adminis-tration spokes-man Jon Allen said. A grassroots campaign is urging travellers not to fly or, if they do, to "opt out" of the full-body scan and demand a more time-consuming pat-down search. But industry watchers aren't convinced that travellers will choose to stay on the ground. "People who fly over Thanksgiving are leisure travellers who bought tickets weeks, months ago," said David Castelveter, a spokes-man for the Air Transport Association, a major airline industry group. "They're non-refundable tickets. They want to go home and see their family and friends and they're very likely to travel." The TSA operates 14 millimeter-wave machines at Hartsfield-Jackson Interna-tional Airport that create an image of a passenger beneath his or her clothing and scan for concealed weapons or explosives. Passengers may opt out of the scan, but the TSA recently began using a more aggressive pat-down on those who decline the scan, and the national outrcy was born. Allen said that na-tionwide, when encountering the imaging machine, 99 per cent of passengers consent to full-body imaging rather than choosing a pat-down. Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport, said it has no plans to opt out of screening.