Upset with being frisked and having a naked image taken of you at airports?I've got an idea - how about if you're not Middle Eastern and between the ages of 18-40 they quit messing with you?
Increasingly, stringent air security screening methods such as these are under question. And they're not just being questioned by travelers upset at being groped. A consensus is building among the airline industry, business and leisure travel groups and even top government officials that something needs to change.
The alternative they're looking to: traveler verification systems akin to trusted traveler programs, in which people's backgrounds are checked beforehand, and they verify who they are when they get ready to board a flight.
The Transportation Security Administration and airlines already are testing a verification program for airline crews, which could end aggressive screening of them. It's time, airlines around the world say, that similar programs — and tiered programs — should be extended to trusted or known travelers.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
TSA to Try Trusting Travelers?
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