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...Some participants accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - which originally opposed arming pilots - of designing a program so rule-bound and cumbersome that it was guaranteed to fail. At one point, according to pilots who talked to TIME on background, there was even talk of a mass walkout...
...Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the federal agency in charge of keeping the nation's skies safe, spent much of the past year vetting, hiring and training 54,000 passenger and baggage screeners. But because of severe budget problems, that force is about to start shrinking. TSA chief Admiral James Loy told Congress recently that 3,000 airport-screener positions would be cut by June 1. But sources tell TIME that a TSA task force has been working since mid-March on even more drastic spending-cut options; a source estimates that the agency could be as much as $1 billion...
That annoying curtain separating first class from coach on most airplane flights may be facing its own final curtain. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which oversees aviation security, has told the airlines that it wants the barrier removed permanently, to allow cabin crews and federal air marshals (FAMs) to see the entire cabin. Some airlines are not thrilled with the move, which could happen by the end of the month. Much of their profit comes from passengers paying high first-class fares, and the companies are afraid of doing anything to alienate those premium flyers. "Privacy is a huge issue...
...they are required to drop the curtain, the airlines are making a request of their own: that the FAMs be seated through the entire plane rather than in valuable first-class seats, where they often sit now. Industry sources say the TSA will have a difficult time persuading the marshals, many of whom are already bored and exhausted by the job, to agree. TSA spokesman Brian Turmail says assertions that morale is poor among the FAMs are "absolutely wrong." He says the TSA "is intent on providing the highest level of security." --By Sally B. Donnelly
...system," says Don Wylie, managing director of maritime services at the Long Beach port. The new system will standardize the background checks that some transportation workers already undergo. But objections are brewing. Nobody's enthused about the government having a database of their personal information, and the TSA fears the new card will be seen as a test run for a national ID card, a controversial idea. Workers are concerned that background checks be fair and appealable. "We want to be sure there's due process," says Ed Wytkind, executive director of the transportation trades department...