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Registered Traveler Breakthrough Would Improve Airport Security

June 16, 2009, 3:45pm

Robert Poole

The bill the House passed earlier this month to reauthorize the Transportation Security Administration contains big news for the Registered Traveler program. If the Senate follows suit, Registered Traveler could be turned into what it was originally intended to be—a risk-based program that enables TSA to re-focus its screening resources away from lower-risk travelers. That would mean a faster and less-hassle trip through airport security for potentially millions of Registered Traveler members like me.

Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #45

Topics include: short-haul flights vs. rail; post-Midway airport privatization; MANPADS defenses; airport landing slots in Europe; the Maginot Line of airport screening; FAMs vs. FFDOs; and other news.

May 21, 2009

Robert Poole

Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #44

Topics include: whole body scanning; runway safety areas; air marshals vs. armed pilots; luggage pilfering and airport security; outsourced commercial airports; and other news.

April 13, 2009

Robert Poole

Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #43

Topics include: inspecting cargo; slot auction problems; misguided bizjet security regs; airport privatization in a soft market; and other news.

March 18, 2009

Robert Poole

TSA Coming Up Short on Cargo Checks

March 17, 2009, 10:46am

Robert Poole

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may not have enough inspectors nor adequate equipment to guarantee all cargo is checked for bombs.

Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #42

Topics include: stealth attack on airport privatization; TSA's flawed study on private screening; airport expansion vs. inter-city rail; limited profiling endorsed; airport competition; and other news.

February 17, 2009

Robert Poole

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