Poll: Travelers not worried about TSA scanners

Most travelers do not consider the body scans performed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to be invasive, despite increased concerns about the screening practice on Capitol Hill, a new poll shows.
 
Seventy-two percent of the 1,000 people surveyed by Minneapolis, Minn.-based Travel Leaders said they were not concerned about the use of full-body scanners at airports. That’s a 10 percent decline from a survey taken by the organization a year ago — still, a majority appears not to share concerns raised by some House Republicans, who recently denied a TSA request to fund more scanners.

Some Democratic leaders have criticized the scanners as well. 

More respondents shared lawmakers' overall dissatisfaction with airport security, however. Fewer people, 60 percent, reported being satisfied with the experience, compared to 73 percent who said the same in 2010.
 
The same survey found that few travelers take heed of international travel warnings from the State Department. Only 18 percent said they would definitely alter trips if government officials warned that travel to a country was dangerous, while 14 percent said they definitely would not change their plans.
 
Forty-seven percent said that travel warnings would make them rethink their travel itineraries, but not necessarily abandon them.