Flying the day before Thanksgiving can test anyone's patience, but this year the frustrations might go beyond long security lines and flight delays because of new body-scanning technology.
Brian Sodergren organized National Opt Out Day, which calls for people to boycott the airport security body scan machines.
The goal is to urge Congress to change policies that require passengers to either be body scanned or patted down and the group is urging people to tell security that they are opting out.
Sodergren claims the body scan infringes on privacy and that pat downs allow workers to improperly touch innocent passengers.
If you do "opt out" of the body scan you, will be patted down. The website optoutday.com claims that a new enhanced pat down allows security to touch private areas with the front of their hands and fingers. They want people to ask to be searched in public instead of in a private area.
People flying into Bradley International Airport on Wednesday night were not sure if the plan will catch on. Some of them said that they thought that the tests were important for security.
"I've been through them a couple of times," said Leslie Guzman who was flying into Bradley from West Palm Beach, Florida. "You just follow the rules and stay with it."