Airport Security

Islamabad, Oct 10: Pakistan Airport Security Force arrested a bearded man wearing a burqa trying to board a plane at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.  

Self-destructing DVDs that you can take on a plane, watch on your laptop, then throw away. Antimicrobial disposable floor mats that prevent the spread of foot fungi at airport security checkpoints. Futuristic, driverless cars that transport travelers between terminals. These are among the...  

COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! The thought of our beloved Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee being patted down by an airport security official boggles the mind. For one, there’s a lot of patting down to do.  

An Israeli Arab lawyer for the workers rights group Kav La'Oved was handcuffed and briefly detained by police this week when he refused to take his pants off during an airport security check.  

Tucson International Airport security were greeted with quite the surprise Wednesday morning when they discovered a human skull in the piece of checked luggage.  

A Millstadt gunmaker is invoking a federal racketeering statute to recover more than $125 million in damages from investors in a former Belleville firm that provides airport security training under federal contracts.  

Members of the Chicago City Council Aviation Committee have questions about a plan to lease Midway Airport. Those questions include everything from airport security to naming rights.  

Being frisked at an airport security checkpoint can be embarrassing, especially if you happen to be the former Secretary of Homeland Security. Tom Ridge knows. He's been there.  

The contracts, worth $7.5 million, are for airports in Southeast Asia and North Africa.  

A funny thing happened to post-9/11 registered traveler programs: Created to thwart would-be terrorists, they have quietly morphed into airport and travel-industry concierge services that have much more to do with convenience than security.  

The check-in process at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life. In fact, our group had a one-hour briefing on what to expect and how to navigate our interrogations in order to check in for our flights with minimal problems.  

(The following was issued by Israel's Magal Security Systems ):  

Entrepreneur Steven Brill, the man who brought you Court TV, opened the first paid, high-speed security lane at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this week. About 11,000 people in metro Atlanta have already signed up for Brill's Clear program that promises — for an annual fee — to speed...  

Techno-artist/open-source developer Evan Roth has a message for the Transportation Safety Administration several messages, actually about what he considers excessive airport security "theater."  

This submission is to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government's review of Aviation Security Screening.