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But we knew that. We knew it in 1997 when the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (the Gore Commission) said so, and advised that aviation security should be a national issue and funded accordingly, not left to the low-cost efforts of highly competitive airlines. "Everyone knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

The changes are already under way, and you may have noticed some of them in that long, long wait to clear security on your last flight. For passengers: a ban on carrying any sharp instruments; government-issued identification needed to board; only ticketed travelers past security; and restricted parking near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

The airlines actually tried to delay the implementation of the bag check, but they are no longer in charge of security, are they? That was perhaps the most critical realization--that a secure system can derive only from a national organization designed to do just that. "It didn't get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

The TSA is a branch of the Transportation Department and separate from the Federal Aviation Administration. It will assume all existing contracts between airlines and private security firms by mid-February. Within a year, the government will supplant the private screeners with newly trained federal workers, who must be U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

That focus includes the coordination of intelligence gathering, long considered a weak spot. Remember, two of the hijackers were on the CIA's watch list, but the information never got to the airlines. According to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, the CIA and FBI and the FAA and airlines are now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Travel | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

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