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Article: Denver International Airport to Require Boarding Passes at Security Checkpoint
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 13, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Under Secretary of
Transportation for Security Adm. James M. Loy today announced that
Denver International Airport (DIA) is participating in the
Transportation Security Administration's "Selectee Checkpoint"
program, which enhances security and convenience by transferring the
screening of selectees from aircraft boarding gates to security
checkpoints where screening equipment and personnel and law
enforcement officers are concentrated. Security checkpoints at DIA
have been reconfigured to accommodate passengers who are selectees
through a special lane. As a result, TSA now requires boarding
passes at the security checkpoint.
Currently, 84 airports ...