Tag Archive: TSA

Customs Facilities Renovated at Cleveland Hopkins

The Cleveland Plain Dealer – The international arrivals area including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)’s Federal Inspection Service (FIS) facilities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport have been renovated in anticipation of Icelandic flights doubling the number of international travelers passing through the airport. It’s good news for travelers who found the previous customs …

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Hopkins Begins Testing New Inline Baggage Screening Systems

THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER – Departing passengers will no longer have to carry their suitcases, after check-in, to a separate TSA baggage drop-off location, beginning Thursday, October 19, in the south end of CLE’s ticketing lobby. Instead, suitcases will be placed on a conveyor belt behind the ticket counter, and sent out of sight to …

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Akron-Canton Becomes the First to Offer Self-Sanitizing Bins at TSA

THE CANTON REPOSITORY – Akron-Canton Airport has teamed with Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls to become the first airport using nano-technology to provide cleaner bins in the TSA lines. Travelers at Akron-Canton Airport will notice orange liners on the handles and mats inside bins used in the security line before entering the boarding area. …

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TSA employee should have screened self, sneaks aboard JetBlue flight – OPShots.net

Thirty year old Carlos Rodriguez, a screener for the TSA at New York’s JFK airport, apparently believed his space-available buddy pass from a JetBlue friend entitled him to a carte-blanche ride on an employee jump-seat during a flight to Santo Domingo last Saturday, May 14th. Approximately forty-five minutes into flight 819,  a scheduled service from …

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