Sentences with phrase «passenger screening»

The assessments, due to be conducted over the next two months, will focus on measures such as passenger screening, physical security at the airport, hold baggage and freight screening.

Three of the largest Sikh advocacy groups in the United States are opposing airport passenger screening measures they say require hand - searches of turbans, despite the use of electronic imaging technology.

On Sunday, Etihad Airways announced that it had been exempted from the laptop ban after US officials determined that the airline was conducting more through passenger screening at Abu Dhabi International Airport, where Etihad is the national carrier.

Each of these failed attempts to bring down airliners helped spur the adoption of new passenger screening techniques and technologies, especially in the U.S..

European and U.S. officials said at the time that airlines had 120 days to comply with the measures, including increased passenger screening.

New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S. - bound flights to comply with government requirements designed to avoid an in - cabin ban on laptops, airlines said.

Along with airport security, he has focused on other transportation - related issues, including improvements to the TSA's expedited passenger screening program and whether surface transportation systems — buses and trains — are vulnerable to attacks.

Before the 9/11 attacks, passenger screening involved metal detectors, but these were closer to the gates than they are now, «making it easier to stash or cache weapons such as the box cutters [the 9/11 attackers] used,» says Joshua Marpet, security evangelist at security firm DataDevastation.

Such x-rays have been offered as a solution for passenger screening as well, though radiation and privacy concerns have limited their application in the U.S.

One intriguing new passenger screening technology is terahertz scanning.

CATSA, which oversees air passenger screening, is analyzing data from the trial and preparing a formal assessment of the program's impact on privacy.

The Canadian Press is reporting that the planned extension of US passenger screening is going ahead next year.

But through dozens of acquisitions Garda branched out into armoured - car services, airport passenger screening, access control systems and internal corporate fraud investigations.

Passenger screenings at airports not only prevent sick travelers from boarding flights to the United States, but they also discourage ill passengers from traveling more generally, said Firoved.

«The risk - based security model, including the PreCheck program, has been an important step forward in keeping our skies safe and improving the passenger screening experience.

The passenger screens showed navigational and a TV monitor.

Screened thousands of passengers daily while maintaining my attention to detail to every passenger

Significantly improved federal business processes (emerging threats, passenger screening, suspic...