doc

Just that it is manifestly NOT a game, IMHO, by any stretch of the imagination.

I have found that I could not return back through security (after literally just walking beyond and through it) in order to retrieve my blazer, which I'd absentmindedly left in the club lounge. I had all the creditials including boarding pass, etc. No, No, No!

Yet the very next day, with no proper creditials, I was able to pass freely and totally unmolested through the very same security point.

Incidentally, i completely agree with the analogy you make with Israel! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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Britons held in airport alert in reprise of "Chicago/UA/knife & stun gun" situation

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003262.html


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Chicago airport breach puts Atlanta firm in spotlight

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011106/n06353220_1.html

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Idling on Airport Security

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/opinion/07WED1.html?ex=10058 00400&en=758c820d3bd1bf5d&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER


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Congressional Negotiators Meet on Airport Safety

Congressional negotiators met on Wednesday to try and end their feud over strengthening airport security, but adjourned after an hour, leaving staff to work on the issue over the next few days.

Leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives say they want the two chambers to produce legislation by Thanksgiving Day that will make airports safer in the wake of the Sept. 11 hijacked airliner attacks on Washington and New York.

But the House and Senate have been unable to agree on the key issue of whether thousands of airport security workers should be put on government payrolls, and have passed very different bills on the subject.

Wednesday was the first meeting of a ``conference committee'' of 21 members from both chambers assigned to broker a compromise that could be sent to President Bush to sign.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/polit...-security.html

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svpii

So, Doc? What about the jacket? You had to abandon it? Tweezers are one thing, but when they start messing with my wardrobe http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif (joke! joke!).

doc

Actually, they had it waiting for me at the front counter! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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Airlines' Refusal to Embrace Increased Security Hurting Efforts for Safer Skies, Keeping Passengers Away

Airline management's refusal to enhance security measures because they might hamper ``on-time'' records is hurting the industry's ability to regain the confidence of the American public and leaves the airlines open to further attacks by terrorists.

``Flight crews are routinely pressured by ground supervisors to cut short security briefings and checks,'' said Association of Flight Attendants International President Patricia Friend, a member of the DOT Rapid Response Team for Aircraft Security and a United Airlines flight attendant. ``We are regularly told that the airlines will not take a delay because the crew wants to make sure the flights are safer.''

Airline management is...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011107/dcw037_1.html

doc

Lap Top Sets Off Airport Security Alarm

A security alarm was set off yesterday at Southwest Florida International Airport, delaying four aircraft and forcing airport authorities to clear a concourse and re-screen passengers.

A bomb-detection device indicated that a passenger's lap top computer might contain explosives.

A screener asked the passenger to switch the computer on and, certain that the alarm had been false, allowed the passenger to enter the concourse. However the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and airport police decided to clear the concourse and re-screen all passengers.

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/11/1006173448.html

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New law gives appeal to airport security jobs

Private firms have been hiring to comply with rules. Workers are hoping to have an advantage when the U.S. takes over.

http://inq.philly.com/content/inquir.../AIRPORT21.htm

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Holiday Travel Tips from the Air Line Pilots Assn

Security Tips for Holiday Travel from the Air Line Pilots Assn., Int’l, the U.S. Department of Transportation, & the FAA.


When you are preparing for your trip, remember to pack smart — pack safe. You cannot bring the items listed below on your person or in carry-on luggage.

• Knives of any length, composition, or description.

• All cutting and puncturing instruments. This includes pocketknives, carpet knives and box cutters, ice picks, straight razors, metal scissors, and metal nail files.

• Corkscrews.

• Athletic equipment that could be used as a weapon, such as baseball/softball bats, golf clubs, pool cues, ski poles, and hockey sticks.

• Weapons — firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, mace, tear gas, or pepper spray.

• Aerosol spray cans — hair spray, deodorant, insect repellant, or butane fuel (such as in curling iron refills, scuba tanks, propane tanks, cartridges, and self-inflating rafts).

• Explosives — fireworks, sparklers, or signal flares.

• Flammable liquids or solids — fuel, paints, paint thinners or cleaners, lighter fluid, and perfume (no more than 16 oz.).

• Other hazardous items — dry ice, gas-powered tools, wet-cell batteries, camping equipment with fuel, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious substances.

• Leave gifts unwrapped. Airline security personnel will open gifts if the X-ray scan cannot determine the contents.

• If in doubt, don’t pack it...

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/11/1006349585.html





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European Union States To Tighten Up Security

uropean Union (EU) transport ministers meeting in Brussels Friday agreed on strict new measures to increase security controls.

The steps agreed upon include making it compulsory for every piece of baggage loaded onto an aircraft in any airport in the 15 EU member states to be screened.

The comprehensive baggage screening will be introduced by the end of 2002 in order to give airport authorities time to acquire the necessary equipment.

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/12/1007985102.html

doc

Shares of Visionics Corp. (news/quote) rose more than 30 percent on Monday after the facial recognition software producer and defense contractor Raytheon Co. (news/quote) announced a deal to market the technology for increased airport security following the attacks on the United States.

Shares of other security services companies and device makers also rose on Monday and have jumped since hijackers crashed airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field killing about 3,900 people.

Shares of Newark, California-based InVision Technologies Inc. (news/quote) (INVN.O), which makes imaging systems to detect concealed weapons, were up 9.3 percent at $34.26 in trading on the Nasdaq on Monday afternoon, off an earlier high at $35.50.

Viisage Technology Inc. (news/quote) (VISG.O) shares rose 96 cents, or 9.17 percent, to $11.43, and Identix Inc. (news/quote) (IDNX.O) shares rose 65 cents, or 7.2 percent, to $9.70. Viisage makes facial recognition systems and Identix makes fingerprint scanning systems.

Raytheon (RTN.N) said on Monday that its facility in Landover, Maryland, would work with Jersey City, New Jersey-based Visionics Corp. (VSNX.O). The companies said in a joint release they would develop and market the systems for airport, government, commercial and private use.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/techn...rtner=MOREOVER

doc

New equipment needed to fight air terror

At airports, the war on terrorism is being fought with 30-year-old weapons.

Metal detectors and X-ray machines used to screen passengers and carry-on luggage date from the 1970s, when they were deployed to prevent hijackings.

They can't detect plastic explosives, such as those allegedly hidden in the shoes of a man aboard a Paris-to-Miami flight on December 22. A passenger, Richard C. Reid was arrested after American Airlines attendants allegedly saw him try to touch a lighted match to his sneakers.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...-Security.html

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/....ap/index.html


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FWIW, CNN has reportedly obtained some previously unreleased FAA data showing that JFK airport has serious security problems (5th) and that EWR and LLGA are better!

doc

Switzerland Eases Carry-on Knife Restrictions

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003497.html


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More Airport Security Flaws Found

http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1...7-412,00.shtml

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US airlines were ordered on Friday to install new cockpit doors to prevent intrusion and resist certain gunfire and explosives on more than 6,000 commercial aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration action went beyond temporary steps already taken by big carriers to secure the cockpit after the September 11 hijack attacks.

Those measures included the installation of bars to reinforce the doors and steps to limit general access to the flight deck.

Friday's order would require carriers to replace cockpit doors and its related structures on the aircraft bulkhead within 18 months at a cost to the industry of between $92.3 million and $120.7 million.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/...eut/index.html

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Please also see;

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003010.html

doc

Mineta Outlines Baggage Inspection Program

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2002/01/1011360060.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003618.html

doc

Some Airlines Skimping on Security Searches

Flight Attendants Issue Security Alert

Flight attendants at a number of airlines are issuing a security alert for air carriers that are requiring flight attendants to conduct new exhaustive security searches in addition to current pre-flight safety checks, without allotting the training or additional time needed to conduct them thoroughly and effectively.

Flight attendants are required by law to conduct pre-flight safety checks of emergency equipment before each flight. Carriers allot the minimum amount of time needed to conduct the emergency equipment checks prior to boarding. These checks were in place prior to Sept. 11.

The FAA mandated daily searches of aircraft for suspicious and dangerous materials after Sept. 11. The DOT Rapid Response Team on aircraft security, appointed by DOT Secretary Norman Mineta, recommended that airlines not use flight or cabin crew to conduct the cabin searches, and that sufficient time and training be provided to the personnel conducting the searches. A number of airlines are violating this recommendation.

Flight attendants have received no additional training to conduct the new security searches. And because of the time crunch brought on by the added duties, ground supervisors are pressuring flight attendants -- sometimes wielding the threat of discipline -- to cut the searches short so passengers can be boarded and an ``on-time'' departure achieved. This threatens the security and safety of the aircraft and everyone onboard.

``Aircraft searches are not a formality,'' said Patricia Friend, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO. ``Security is not the airlines' main objective when management doesn't use trained personnel or allow enough time to conduct a thorough security search. These airlines are shirking their responsibility for security by doing only what's fastest and cheapest.''

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020124/dcth020_1.html


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Ohio Man Held on Plane Knife Charge

...``Excuse me? Are you for real?'' she told the Dispatch. ``My husband called a radio station? That makes no sense.''

She declined to say much more, but confirmed that he was on a flight Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...ane-Knife.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003645.html

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Flight Crews: Cabin Checks Not Enough

At least once a day, Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight attendant Brandie Cartwright searches the cabin to make sure there are no weapons or bombs.

She says she doesn't have enough time to do the job, nor enough training to know what to look for.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...-Security.html


[n]A man carrying a computer bag bolted through a Lambert Airport security checkpoint Thursday, prompting officials to evacuate the concourse.[/b]

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/003653.html

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Some Airlines Not Providing Security Training

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2002/01/1011965111.html

doc

Unions, Airlines Remain at Odds

Tension Increasing Between Unions, Airlines Over Security, Safety

http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/020201/from...ht_deck_1.html