TSA eases airport screening for travelers 75+
May 26, 2012 20:52:36 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 26, 2012 20:52:36 GMT -5
Isn't that magnanimous of them....
US eases airport screening for travelers 75-plus
AFPAFP – Fri, 25 May, 2012
A sign informing travelers about new screening procedures by the US Transportation Security Administration at La Guardia Airport in New York in 2010. The US government is easing the airport screening process for travelers 75 and older, rolling out new rules just in time for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, an official said Friday. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)
A sign informing travelers about new screening procedures by the US Transportation …
The US government is easing the airport screening process for travelers 75 and older, beginning to roll out new rules just in time for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, an official said Friday.
From this weekend the elderly will no longer have to doff shoes, belts and jackets as they pass through security checkpoints at New York's three major airports: John F. Kennedy International, La Guardia, and Newark Liberty.
The Transportation Security Administration has said rollout of the new measures to the rest of the country could follow.
"Seventy-five-plus is in the process of being rolled out and customers will see it over the course of the summer and beyond," said David Castelveter, chief spokesman of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Castelveter said he did not have a precise timetable, but the New York rollout was expected to occur through the upcoming three-day weekend that unofficially kicks off the US summer vacation season.
The 75-plus measures have already been successfully tested in the Chicago, Denver, Orlando and Portland airports.
Last September the TSA decided to allow children 12 and under to pass through screening without removing their shoes.
The enhanced TSA airport screening was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States in which the attackers used airplanes as weapons.
The Al-Qaeda attacks claimed 2,976 lives in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
ca.news.yahoo.com/us-eases-airport-screening-travelers-75-plus-215258125.html
US eases airport screening for travelers 75-plus
AFPAFP – Fri, 25 May, 2012
A sign informing travelers about new screening procedures by the US Transportation Security Administration at La Guardia Airport in New York in 2010. The US government is easing the airport screening process for travelers 75 and older, rolling out new rules just in time for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, an official said Friday. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)
A sign informing travelers about new screening procedures by the US Transportation …
The US government is easing the airport screening process for travelers 75 and older, beginning to roll out new rules just in time for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, an official said Friday.
From this weekend the elderly will no longer have to doff shoes, belts and jackets as they pass through security checkpoints at New York's three major airports: John F. Kennedy International, La Guardia, and Newark Liberty.
The Transportation Security Administration has said rollout of the new measures to the rest of the country could follow.
"Seventy-five-plus is in the process of being rolled out and customers will see it over the course of the summer and beyond," said David Castelveter, chief spokesman of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Castelveter said he did not have a precise timetable, but the New York rollout was expected to occur through the upcoming three-day weekend that unofficially kicks off the US summer vacation season.
The 75-plus measures have already been successfully tested in the Chicago, Denver, Orlando and Portland airports.
Last September the TSA decided to allow children 12 and under to pass through screening without removing their shoes.
The enhanced TSA airport screening was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States in which the attackers used airplanes as weapons.
The Al-Qaeda attacks claimed 2,976 lives in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
ca.news.yahoo.com/us-eases-airport-screening-travelers-75-plus-215258125.html
