Word: carriers
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Edgar’s family soon had a decision to make. They heard on various radio reports that “Americans were coming!” Edgar’s mother, originally from the US, discovered that an US jet carrier boat would be arriving the next day to transport all American citizens to the nearby Guinea. With RUF leaders declaring that no one would be allowed to leave the country because the entire state was on lock down, the Edgar family faced a perilous decision. “I really didn’t want to go?...
...model of tightness. But compared with the top airports in Europe and Asia, the U.S. continues to lag. In India, only ticketed passengers can enter the terminal. Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur put international bags through a rigorous screening process. And in Europe, upstart budget carrier Ryanair bans most carry-on luggage...
...mundane, such as forgetting to ask the two ridiculous screening questions, to the serious, such as flying luggage of passengers who weren't on board. American spokesman John Hotard says the airline spends tens of millions of dollars a year on security and that it "is the only carrier that has its own internal audit team that [every week] goes around various airports to audit not only American Airlines but our security operators...
...Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel's only international airport, has an enviable record. No flight out of there has ever been commandeered. A 1974 TWA flight originating in Tel Aviv was blown up, but only after taking on passengers in Athens. Only once, in 1968, was the national carrier, El Al, successfully hijacked...
...Government sources would not describe in detail the nature of the weapons found on the Delta flights last week, but one official disclosed that another weapon was discovered on at least on other aircraft, owned by a fourth airline. The government official refused to name that carrier...