by Jeff Price | Oct 7, 2013 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Unaccompanied Minor
News is breaking today about a nine-year-old boy who slipped through security and made it on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. You will soon hear that the individual slipped through “airport” security but that is not entirely accurate. I am careful...
by Jeff Price | Sep 20, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
In 2012, the issue of perimeter security made headlines numerous times. From a jet-skier swimming to shore and accessing the ramp at JFK, to a drunk driver slamming through the perimeter gates at Phoenix-Sky Harbor, to a former airline pilot jumping the fence...
by Jeff Price | Sep 17, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
It is ironic that today’s topic may relate directly to the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard. If passenger screening is the front door, then airport access control and credentialing programs represent the back door to the aviation security system. From...
by Jeff Price | Sep 12, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
On the anniversary of 9/11 I guess it is only fitting to assess the largest change in aviation security to come out of that tragedy, the creation of the Transportation Security Administration. Since its creation in November 2001 this much-maligned agency has been at...
by Jeff Price | Sep 9, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
The primary security responsibility of the air carrier is to keep the airplane and its passengers reasonably safe and protected from unlawful acts of interference. This includes ensuring individuals, their belongings and cargo that are allowed on board by the airline,...
by Jeff Price | Sep 5, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
The screener workforce guards the front door of aviation security. Both prior to and after 9/11 the responsibility to ensure that all passengers and baggage or cargo has been screened prior to being allowed on board an airplane remains the responsibility of the...
