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...Prime Number 70 percent was the success rate when investigators from the U.S. FAA tried sneaking knives through airport security in undercover tests...
...frenzy? The Transportation Security Administration, the agency that took over airport security from the FAA on Feb. 17, has added teeth to a Transportation Department zero-tolerance policy. That was the goal when Congress created the TSA last year. And now security staff members angling for the 30,000 jobs the TSA plans to fill in the coming months are working hard to appear conscientious. The TSA starts naming permanent security directors in a handful of airports as soon as next week...
When it comes to America's troubled airlines, every cloud is diligently searched for its silver lining. And so the FAA has found one for the post-9/11 air travel slowdown: It has given the agency time to launch plans for new runways and better airports. Still, the effect on commercial flying has been devastating. Airlines lost about $7 billion in 2001, even after receiving a federal bailout of $5 billion, and passenger demand is expected to plunge by as much as 12 percent through...
...Smoother flying may be ahead, although it will take some time. The FAA announced this week that while air travel is picking up, it will take another year for traffic to climb back to pre-9/11 levels. And airlines won't start posting a profit until well into...
...improve security at the country's nuclear power plants and weapons sites--and the chilling discovery in Afghanistan of evidence that al-Qaeda may try to target them--little has been done to lock down the sites or to clear the air corridors above them. In October the FAA briefly banned aircraft from flying below 18,000 ft. and within 10 miles of 86 sensitive sites, including several nuclear power plants, but the ban was lifted in November and has not been reinstated...