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Most people using British airports since an alleged terrorist plot was foiled in early August have reacted with understanding and patience to the resulting long delays, canceled flights and crowded security checks. But one man is livid: Michael O'Leary, the CEO[an error occurred while processing this directive] of...
What exactly happened on Northwestern Airlines flight 042 out of Amsterdam this morning still isn't clear, but to give themselves ample time to figure it out, Dutch authorities have formally placed a dozen passengers under arrest. The Bombay-bound DC-10 had just crossed into German airspace when the...
Before Sept. 11, 2001, Argenbright was CEO of the world's largest private airport security screening firm, the 20-year-old, Atlanta-based Argenbright Security, which had 25,000 employees screening passengers at 44 domestic and 28 European airports. That business vanished soon thereafter when the Transportation Security Administration was...
As the head of the company whose screeners worked at two of the three airports targeted on Sept. 11 - Newark and Washington's Dulles - Argenbright quickly became a scapegoat in the aftermath of the terror attacks. On Oct. 12, 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company...
British Airways and other British carriers, including Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, are blaming some of the problems, including more than a thousand canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the...