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KCBS
Missing Laptop Spurs TSA Suspension Of Clear Reg. Traveler Enrollments
Business Travel News, NY -
Clear said current members and airport operations would not be impacted by the enrollment suspension. Clear in a statement said information contained on the ...
Stolen laptop at San Francisco airport halts enrollment in speed ... San Jose Mercury News
Stolen SFO Laptop Raises ID Theft Fears KTVU.com
TSA Suspends Verified Identity Pass, Inc. Clear(R) Registered ... MarketWatch
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Washington Post
Who is That Masked Athlete?
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY -
?This is not a measure I would recommend.? Authorities have instituted broad pollution control measures ahead of the Games, including shuttering factories ...
AssociatedPress
Smog returns as stars arrive Saudi Gazette
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The Age
Bombers kill 16 in W.China ahead of Games
Swissinfo, Switzerland - Aug 4, 2008
The lanky 23-year-old eluded female fans and a media scrum in the arrivals hall at Beijing's vast new international airport terminal, entering the country ...
hit west China under heavy security guardian.co.uk
Recent News Analysis: Defense Update
As China Girds for Olympics, New Violence BlueRidgeNow.com
North County Times - Californian - Swissinfo
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Lodgian Reports 2Q ?08 Results
Hotel Interactive, Inc., NY -
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP measures and should not be used as a substitute for measures such as net income (loss), cash flows from operating ...LGN
NWA flies 7.6B passenger miles in July
Bizjournals.com, NC - 51 minutes ago
Load factor is a measure of how full a plane is when flown. The Minnesota-based carrier flew 7.6 billion revenue passenger miles in July, a traffic increase ...NWA
Brian Cazeneuve
CNN -
On the way from the airport, there was a sign about the low bridges we would soon pass under. The sign sported the English words: "Don't ride your vehicle ...
?08 Olympics: How Nigerians Can Stay Out of Trouble in China
This Day, Nigeria -
Reflecting China's fears that an attack is possible, Chinese authorities will close Beijing's airport for about five hours during the opening ceremony of ...

AFP
China 'guarantees' safe Games amid terror threat
AFP -
China has said it may implement further emergency measures later this week, such as taking more cars off the roads and shutting other factories.
Beijingers feel the Olympic pinch
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Aug 4, 2008
By Cindy Sui BEIJING - The difference is noticeable as soon as one arrives at Beijing International Airport ahead of the Summer Olympic Games which kick off ...

New York Daily News
Fliers peeved at JetBlue's $7 fee for pillows & blankets
New York Daily News, NY -
Tim Wagner, a spokesman for American Airlines, said it will closely monitor JetBlue's program but did not announce any similar measures. ...JBLU
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[PDF] DEVELOPING MEASURES OF AIRPORT PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE: AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPE … -
D Gillen, A Lall - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation …, 1997 - 192.54.242.121
... of partial productivity measure, it is not very informative ... Thus the airport manager
is unable to determine ... Extracting more information from measures of total ...
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[CITATION] Aircraft noise and residential property values adjacent to Manchester International Airport
G Pennington, N Topham, R Ward - Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 1990
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Hubs and High Fares: Dominance and Market Power in the US Airline Industry -
S Borenstein - Rand Journal of Economics, 1989 - JSTOR
... The ar- guments for route and airport share do not apply as strongly to the route
and airport Her- findahl measures, but I have also chosen to estimate the ...

A parameterized consideration set model for airport choice: an application to the San Francisco Bay … -
G Basar, C Bhat - Transportation Research Part B, 2004 - Elsevier
... obtained from the estimation sample are not an artifact ... without the need to adjust
the airport-specific constants). Two measures of fit are computed in the ...

[BOOK] The Airport Business -
R Doganis - 1992 - books.google.com
... for selected European 187 airports in 1989 8.7 Profitability measures for selected ...
Finally one should not forget the fact that many airport managers from ...

… Measures in Travelers Exiting Zimbabwe from Harare and Victoria Falls International Airport -
SM Laver, J Wetzels, RH Behrens - Journal of Travel Medicine, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
... Victoria Falls International Airport ... On the statement ?It is not necessary to take ...
Personal and Environmental Protection Measures (P&EPM) A majority of ...

The benchmarking of airport performance -
G Francis, I Humphreys, J Fry - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2002 - Elsevier
... The way in which these benchmark measures are used to improve performance and their
usefulness to airport managers is not recorded ( International Air ...

Incidence of Air Travel-Related Pulmonary Embolism at the Madrid-Barajas Airport -
E Perez-Rodriguez, D Jimenez, G Diaz, I Perez- … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... our patients on arriving at the airport, shortly after ... 2 In our study, we did not
analyze the ... determining what type of PTE prevention measures airlines should ...

Marginal cost pricing of airport runway capacity -
A Carlin, RE Park - American Economic Review, 1970 - JSTOR
... nor EFT were available; there are no satisfactory delay measures in such ... and thus
provide a rough indication of whether the airport was busy or not at any ...

… of the world's major airports: summary report of the ATRS global airport benchmarking research report … -
TH Oum, C Yu, X Fu - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2003 - Elsevier
... As discussed earlier, the TFP measures reported in Table 3 are ... influenced by many
factors; thus, they may not reflect the true efficiency of an airport. ...

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Airport security measures not backed by solid evidence

Did you pack your bags yourself?

There is no solid evidence that the huge amounts of money spent on airport security screening measures since September 11th are effective, argue researchers in this week’s Christmas issue of the BMJ.

Most screening programmes around the world are closely evaluated and heavily regulated before implementation. They rely on sound scientific and cost-benefit evidence before they are put into practice. Is airport security screening an exception, ask Eleni Linos and colleagues?

They reviewed evidence for the effectiveness of airport security screening measures, comparing it to the evidence required by the UK National Screening Committee criteria to justify medical screening programmes.

Despite worldwide airport protection costing an estimated $5.6 billion every year, they found no comprehensive studies evaluating the effectiveness of passenger or hand luggage x-ray screening, metal detectors or explosive detection devices. There was also no clear evidence of testing accuracy.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) defends its measures by reporting that more than 13 million prohibited items were intercepted in one year. But, argue the authors, there is no way of knowing what proportion of these items would have led to serious harm.

This raises several questions, they say, such as what is the sensitivity of the screening question: ‘Did you pack all your bags yourself?’ and has anyone ever said ‘no’? What are the ethical implications of pre-selecting high risk groups? Are new technologies that ‘see’ through clothes acceptable and what hazards should we screen for?

While there may be other benefits to rigorous airport screening, the absence of publicly available evidence to satisfy even the most basic criteria of a good screening programme concerns us, they write.

They call for airport security screening to be open to public and academic debate.

Rigorously evaluating the current system is only the first step for building a future airport security programme that is more user-friendly, cost-effective and, ultimately, protects passengers from realistic threats, they conclude.

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