TSA tackles lines in Atlanta
The Transportation Security Administration’s own Kip Hawley will visit Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to help security teams there shorten security lines.
New ID plan could ease burden
Air travelers who have a “Ted Kennedy problem,” that is they have names similar to those on terror watch lists, may be spared the extra security screening under a new plan.
Whole-body scanning expands
Whole-body scanning, where a TSA screener sees a detailed image of a person’s body, will expand to New York and Los Angeles this week.
TSA screening program in spotlight
The Transportation Security Administration’s “behavior detection” program made headlines this week as screeners caught a man trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials in Orlando.
More than 10% of pilots can fly armed
More than 10 percent of the nation’s airline pilots are trained to carry a handgun while flying, and the Transportation Security Administrations says that number will grow.
Where are the air marshals?
Fewer than one percent of the 28,000 commercial flights in the air each day in the United States are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, according to a CNN investigation.
Paper is out, cellphones are in
Continental Airlines is testing a check-in system that allows passengers to display an encrypted bar code on the screen of their handheld mobile device — instead of a paper boarding pass — as they pass through security.
Security evolves on TSA blog
The Transportation Security Administration’s blog has been live since Jan. 30. The Associated Press takes a look at what’s buzzing. It found questions asked and answered, myths dispelled and, of course, plenty of criticism.
Did TSA screener endanger boy’s life?
According to WFTV in Florida, an over-zealous security screener at Orlando International Airport may have put a teenage boy’s life in danger when the officer insisted on opening the teen’s sterile back-up feeding tube.
TSA seeks a better laptop case
The Transportation Security Administration wants to eliminate one of the more tedious tasks of air travelers — removing their laptop computers from their bags and sending them through the X-ray machine.