TSA expands Pre-Check program to 28 airports

{mosads}Pistole at the the expansion moves TSA “closer to our goal of delivering the most effective and efficient screening by recognizing that most passengers do not pose a threat to security.

“We are pleased to expand this important effort, in collaboration with our airline and airport partners, as we move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to a more intelligence-driven, risk-based transportation security system,” Pistole said.

TSA said that the Pre-Check program, which was being tested at airports Dallas, Tex., Minneapolis, Minn., Miami, Fla., Los Angeles, Calif., Detroit, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Ga., has been used by 336,000 airport passengers since it began last year.

The airports it will be expanded to are Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI); Boston Logan International Airport (BOS); Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT); Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG); Denver International Airport (DEN); Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL); George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH); Honolulu International Airport (HNL); Indianapolis International Airport (IND); John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK); LaGuardia Airport (LGA); Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL); Louis Armstrong New Orleans International
Airport (MSY); Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU); Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR); O’Hare International Airport (ORD); Orlando International Airport (MCO); Philadelphia International Airport (PHL); Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX); Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT); Portland International Airport (PDX); Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA); Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC); San Francisco International Airport (SFO); Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA); Tampa International Airport (TPA); Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD).