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When a country succumbs to demands to release a captured terrorist, it cannot know what price it will later pay. In the case of Maulana Masood Azhar, India thinks it knows now. In 1999 Azhar--at the time a leader of the radical militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen--was in...
That means smoking out the bad guys before they reach the planes. To the airlines, this suggests using newly trained screeners to conduct criminal profiling. But profiling is still a hot button, even with an Administration that has asked for--and received--increased investigative power. "Absolutely not," Secretary of Transportation...
Will people willingly give up personal information to move more quickly and safely through the air traffic system? Some frequent flyers already do. U.S. airlines such as Delta and American are subtly providing speed lanes with separate security lines for well-known premium passengers. Some 2,000 U.S. and British...
As the big airlines hemorrhaged money and talked about the need to get even bigger, the small airlines discovered the safety issue. Within days of the disaster, Jonathan Ornstein, the CEO of Mesa Airlines, a commuter carrier based in Phoenix, announced that he was hiring his own corps of unarmed...
Airlines always point out that flying is the safest means of transport. And the reason is that the airlines and the government have created a culture of safety that puts everything else (like comfort) second; a system of inspection, mechanical redundancies and training builds concentric rings of safety around a...