Abstract: Air cooling passages for a gas turbine engine component, and in particular, a blade outer air seal, are provided with a filtering technique to filter impurities before they can reach a metering location. The air filtering techniques include the provision of a plurality of openings which each have a small cross-sectional area when compared to the cross-sectional area of the metering location. These small openings will filter out impurities before they reach the metering location. The metering location has a cross-sectional area that is greater than the cross-sectional area of any one of the openings, however, the total cross-sectional area of the plurality of openings exceeds the cross-sectional area of the metering location such that adequate air is supplied even if several of the openings are clogged.