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SECURIT Y “We have always believed here at Logan that employee screening was the right thing to do . . . We have always been pretty aggressive in trying to add additional screening where we can.” — Dennis Treece, director of Corporate security, Boston Logan international Airport the air carriers that could be spent otherwise. They could be doing something productive rather than being inspected or waiting to be inspected. “I won’t try to speak for Chicago, LAX or LaGuardia because they have a whole different set of issues, but for an airport our size where we don’t have a lot of turnover of employees and where we know the people, I would think a good system of random checking throughout the day would probably be sufficient,” Braaten said. “I’m not sure that you gain an awful lot more by screening someone every single time they walk in and out of a door.” percent perimeter screening, which included perimeter, terminal and cargo screening. “We have never been happy that passengers have to be screened, but the guy who comes on the aircraft to clean the plane doesn’t have to be screened. It just makes no sense to us, and we have always been pretty aggressive in trying to add additional screening where we can.” At Logan, 65,717 vehicles and 124,395 people were searched from May 5 through July 31. According to stats collected by the TSA, the average wait times were five minutes or less on the trucks and less than a minute for employees. ■ Perimeter Screening Boston Logan Boston Logan International Airport found the 100 percent perimeter screening to be “very manageable” in both the summertime pilot study and Logan’s own employee screening trial conducted with local TSA personnel last year. “We haven’t gotten into trying to tell TSA how to do their business, but we did tell them that we have always believed here at Logan that employee screening was the right thing to do,” said Dennis Treece, director of corporate security. Logan was the sole participant to test 100 WEBLINK For details from TSA on the employee screening pilot program, go to: www.tsa.gov/press/ releases/2008/0506b.shtm MAY 2009 Marketing & Communications Conference and JumpStart® Air Service Development Program May 31 – June 3 The Sheraton City Centre, Montréal (514) 878-2000 Join your industry colleagues at this highly-regarded conference to delve into the latest trends in media relations, customer service and marketing and air service. The ACI-NA Marketing and Communications Conference and JumpStart® Air Service Development Program is designed for each of these disciplines from both large and small airports. The last day features the JumpStart® Air Service Development program, where airport representatives meet one on one with airline route professionals in an exhibition-like setting. For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities for this meeting, please contact Amy Peters at (202) 293-8500. To see a calendar of our upcoming events, please visit www.aci-na.org/conferences. www.aci-na.org | CENTERLINES 37 http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2008/0506b.shtm http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2008/0506b.shtm http://www.aci-na.org

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Centerlines - December 2008 Contents President’s Message Canadian Airports Associates’ Corner Policy Center On the Hill and On the Stump Cover Story: Airport Belt Tightening On Management: Pooling DBE Resources Revenue Arena: New Revenue Streams Griesbach Concessions Award Winners Security: Employee Screening Pilot Tests New Technology: Wireless Growth Now Underway Grand Openings New Members Index of Advertisers/Advertiser.com Box Scores

Centerlines - December 2008

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