TSA Secondary Screening Area at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest passenger airport, handling more than 100,000 travelers on an average day. The Transportation Security Administration screens all passengers and luggage passing through the airport's checkpoints, and secondary screening stations like this one are used when a bag or passenger requires closer inspection beyond the standard X-ray and metal detector process. These stations are equipped with explosive trace detection swabs, handheld wands, and inspection tables where officers can open and examine bags by hand. TSA operates under the Department of Homeland Security and has staffed U.S. airport checkpoints since the agency's creation in 2001.

Photo taken in May 2018.