Arrive at the entrance to the terminals. If you don't have your boarding pass yet, visit the ticketing counter or use your mobile phone to retrieve it. You'll need it for TSA lines later.
Follow the hallway until you enter a large open atrium on the third level. This area has multiple displays showing updated flight gate assignments.
Follow TSA instructions as you proceed through security. You will first encounter the checkpoint where carry-ons are screened.
Place all carry-on items, including electronics, jackets, and metal objects into the bins for screening. Remove your shoes if required. Although belts don't tend to trigger problems, be sure your belt comes off. Place any loose items into a plastic square bin that is found off the edge of the rolling racks before the item's X-ray machines.
Step into the body scanner and follow the screen prompts. Raise your arms as instructed for screening. Walk into them and turn to your right. Look at the picture. Hold your hands open and form in the shape of a curved V (almost as if you were forming them into an almost interconnected Valentine heart well above your head.) Wait for the machine to X-ray you. Most people pass through the machine without much interruption. These newest scanners began the 100% screening installed, and 2007, following a firearms and marijuana smuggling case discovered at this airport.
Continue walking on the path. Follow the overhead signs to the monorail that transports passengers to their assigned gates. Once you start to see several square-tube-like items with a circular plastic piece (that may or may not have a fluorescent light that designates these transportation devices), make sure that the alleyway sends you to the gate containing your flight.
Check the nearby flight boards to confirm your gate assignment hasn't changed.
Travel on the shuttle and take the monorail to the flight gates. Seats are only available at the front and back of each monorail car; most people will stand during the ride. Be prepared for a few-minute shuttle to the gates area. Don't go too far down the alleyway if you'd like to ride going forward and be able to sit. The best place to sit (and rarely crowded) is the seat at the monorail's very back. The other monorail cars will tend to be crowded and almost always will have no seats going in the forward direction or no seats whatsoever. Exit from the monorail car through the doors that open once the monorail stops. The doors that open should be the opposite-sided ones from those you entered through the last time.
Exit the monorail and walk down the ramp leading to the airport's gate.
Check the gate's flight display to confirm your flight's boarding location and status. Most often, no other changes are needed, as most flights don't change gates that often. But be prepared if your flight changes gates.
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