Many airlines flying into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have hired private security firms to guard passengers, cargo and aircraft rather than rely on the Kenya Airports Authority or local police for protection.
A laptop computer containing personal information from 33,000 travelers who applied to a program for bypassing airport security lines was probably stolen and returned, not just misplaced, investigators said Monday.
Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked?
Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked? The federal government wants to hear — or at least read — your gripes at the "Evolution of Security" blog the Transportation Security Administration introduced Wednesday. And it promises those complaints and suggestions won't vanish into thin air.
Government investigators smuggled liquid explosives and detonators past airport security, exposing a dangerous hole in the nation's ability to keep these forbidden items off of airplanes, according to a report made public Wednesday.
An airline employee led former Vice President Al Gore and two associates around airport security lines before police spotted the breach and required them to be screened, an airport spokeswoman said Thursday.
At the airport check-in of tomorrow, "getting through security" should take 30 seconds.
The Transportation Security Administration is defending its treatment of a California college student who was detained at the Philadelphia airport after Arabic flash cards were found in his backpack.
"Never suggest, ask or demand that passengers remove footwear prior to entering the WTMD [walk-through metal detector]," says the one-page directive, which went into effect immediately.
Airport security is about to get more personal. Starting this Saturday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will require passengers to provide their full name, date of birth and gender when booking all domestic and international flights.
Transporting exotic animals in and out of the Egypt is illegal, and none of the passengers on Friday's flight claimed ownership of the baby croc.
Transportation Security Administration is responsible for administrating the security through the United States. However, they aren't making our airports safer. It's just a show put on to make passengers feel safer.
Kenton Weaver's parents knew the 13-year-old boy with Autism had a burning desire to take a plane ride, but never did they imagine he'd manage to buy a ticket, snatch his dad's car, drive to the airport and take a cross-country flight.
"Ilan Chaim ("Illusion of Security," March 29) claimed that security in US airports offers inadequate protection against potential terror attacks.
The TSA is withholding the name of the test airlines for murky "security reasons" — likely a code word for bad publicity, but the airlines should be easily identifiable since they are likely the only ones asking for passengers' dates of birth.
The pilot was asked to take off his shoes and belt like everyone -- but completely lost the plot, the source said. He pulled down his trousers and pants to completely expose himself, then turned to the security guard and asked angrily, 'Do you want to search this?'
There have always been special queues for first-class check-in and boarding. Those are part of a private transaction between an airline and a customer. But two-tiered security checks are a different story. Airport security, after all, is not a business transaction.
TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- Keep your shoes and belts on: Waiting in long airport security lines to pass through metal detectors may soon be a thing of the past.
Egyptian authorities denied entry to one of Osama bin Laden's sons and put him on a plane to Qatar on Sunday, becoming the third country to reject the self-proclaimed "ambassador for peace."
Her name is Helen, a Muslim woman in her mid-twenties. She's scared to talk to me even though I've told her that I will change her name for my article so the authorities will have no idea who she is.
Gun-rights groups are appealing a federal judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to allow licensed gun owners to pack heat in parts of the world's busiest airport.
It sounds like the stuff of science-fiction nightmare. But experts say a new scanner which can read minds is the next step in fighting terrorism. Inventors also claim it will slash queuing times at airports - and bring an end to a ban on liquids.
A Quebec businessman whose name is one of the many that have erroneously landed on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's flight passenger watch list has decided to change his name to avoid lengthy security hassles at the airport.
... the paparazzo was attempting to photograph the rap star, when Kanye allegedly confronted the photographer, grabbing his camera and smashing it to the ground. Airport security intervened... later releasing them both.
We also looked at the behavioral signs that accompany the act of thinking up an answer on the spot (e.g., an increase in pauses) and signs of emotion in the face, voice or gesture that contradict the words being spoken ("The answer is definitely no" accompanied by just a slight n …
Two new security technologies have been deployed in the two convention city airports -- Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
While there's not much good news (if any) on fees being reduced, some changes at our airports may make traveling a little less stressful and time-consuming.
Thousands of passengers are already being scanned in a trial being carried out at two airports. However if the trials prove successful, ministers want the machines to replace most front line airport immigration officer over the next five years.
When travelers go to the airport, they know what kind of security to expect: luggage searches, metal detectors and shoe inspections.
An airport at Kelowna, BC, is using a new scanner that literally allows security workers to see passengers naked.Of course , everyone is assured these "nude pictures" will be quickly deleted from the files after it is ascertained the passengers aren't secreting bombs and such on …
"Israel is considered to have the most effective airport security measures anywhere in the world. So convinced are they of the benevolence of people they allow to board their planes, first class passengers are given steak knives with their meals.
Many YouTube vloggers are outraged by a report that a 13 year old girl was put in a cage by Homeland Security.