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Ensuring quality screening and passenger experience alongside astronomical growth

We asked leading screening experts Smiths Detection for an insight into challenges and innovations in screening and a look at the recent electronics ban...

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Morpho Detection in $40 Million TSA order

7 March 2017 | By International Airport Review

Morpho Detection announce orders valued at more than $40 million from the TSA for its deployed fleet of Morpho Detection CTX hold baggage explosives detection systems (EDS).

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Homeland Security: America’s airports and the threat from within

13 February 2017 | By Roy Manuell (International Airport Review)

The US Homeland Security Committee has released a new report highlighting increasing concerns that insider threats to aviation security are on the rise.

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An exclusive with Analogic on their 3D baggage scanning technology ConneCT

13 February 2017 | By Roy Manuell (International Airport Review)

The aviation industry is seeing new technologies appear every week. We speak exclusively to Analogic on their new 3D baggage screening technology.

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World’s first trial of new security screening system taking place at Shannon Airport

12 September 2016 | By International Airport Review

Shannon Airport introduce new security screening concept that could halve the time taken to pass through security...

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TSA and American Airlines to deploy next generation screening technology

11 July 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, International Airport Review

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and American Airlines are to jointly test next generation screening technology at American Airlines hubs across the U.S. this autumn.

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Midway International Airport opens TSA PreCheck enrolment centre

24 May 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, International Airport Review

Chicago’s Midway International Airport has announced the opening of its TSA PreCheck enrolment centre, designed to streamline the passenger pre-screen registration process.

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Next generation queue design and model

6 August 2014 | By InnoCentive

TSA Pre✓™ is an expedited screening program that allows low-risk travelers to experience expedited, more efficient security screening...

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Risk based security: What is acceptable or tolerable?

3 April 2014 | By Yves Duguay

Aviation security expert, Yves Duguay, provides a fascinating insight into the reality and perception of managing the probability of an aviation security attack...

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TSA announces new application process for TSA Pre✓™, More options to apply for expedited screening

3 December 2013 | By

TSA plans more than 300 sites across the country...

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McCarran utilizes latest tech to manage/control exit lane breaches

13 November 2013 | By McCarran

McCarran International Airport has received TSA approval to fully utilize its automated exit lane corridors...

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Shifting the paradigm of airport security

4 April 2013 | By John S. Pistole, TSA Administrator

TSA Administrator, John S. Pistole, provides an insight into how the Transportation Security Administration is transforming airport security. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) continues its transformation from an organisation that screens every passenger in the same ‘one size fits all’ way, to a risk-based, intelligence-driven model. The TSA uses the…

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Hong Kong: A land of air cargo opportunity

7 December 2012 | By Lilian Chan, Executive Director, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd.

The role of Hong Kong as a country is multi-faceted; it is simultaneously a market and manufacturing base in its own right, a gateway to the world for Southern China’s top industrial region, and a cargo hub for the entire Asia region. Little wonder that it is now the world’s…

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TSA sets cargo screening deadline for international inbound passenger aircraft

16 May 2012 | By Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

100 percent screening will be required on December 3, 2012...

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SITA to help improve passenger experience at US airport checkpoints

11 April 2012 | By SITA

SITA’s sophisticated queue management system being adopted as part of $48M improvement program...

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