Airport Security Screeners Overworked, Report Says
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The nation's 45,000 federal airport security screeners suffers from low morale, understaffing and excessive overtime, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general.
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The U.S. government wants airlines  to turn over information on more than a million people who  traveled in June to test a new system for identifying  passengers who may pose a security risk, officials said on  Tuesday.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.-The Washington Post
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Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked?
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The crew of a commuter plane that crashed, killing 13, had been on duty nearly 15 hours that day, a federal investigator said.
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A congressional report blames a litany of shortcomings at the Transportation Security Administration for security problems on a Web site set up in 2006 to help travelers remove their names from terrorist watch-lists.
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European officials yesterday joined the chorus of concern over a U.S. screening program that creates risk profiles for every air traveler entering or leaving the United States, and sought assurances that the system does not violate European privacy rights.
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Airline safety is being compromised by pilot fatigue, a BBC News investigation finds.
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The Transportation Security Administration announced late Wednesday that it is modifying pat-down procedures at airports -- a decision that comes after hundreds of complaints, most of them from women, that the procedure is too intrusive
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Workers were frustrated there was no industrywide standard for reporting suspicious activity - until now.
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Due to an overtaxed air traffic control system, among other things, travelers should brace themselves for a growing number of chronically late planes.
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An airport security company is offering $500,000 to anyone who can figure out how to speed up security lines. Can you build a better screening system?
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f you think the biggest pariah in the travel industry is an overzealous airport security screener, clearly you do not travel with a pack of cigarettes in your carry-on bag.
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The nation's top transportation official ordered an investigation of two airlines that canceled hundreds of flights over the holiday weekend because of computer and staffing problems, stranding thousands of travelers.
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Half of the systems used to detect wind shear at the Phuket airport were not working at the time of the weekend plane crash that killed 89 people, a Thai official said Tuesday.
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Manchester Airport staff used faulty security equipment and lied about bag search figures, a BBC programme finds.
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The Transportation Security Administration launched a new blog to inform passengers â and perhaps ease their frustration with airport security screenings.