Aviation Daily on Airports

Airports Has Moved!!

While we do a very occasional post here, the blog has moved -- and been renamed.

Aviation Daily on Airports is now Towers and Tarmacs.  You can click here to read all about the wonderful world of airports.  See you there!!

Hawley Offers TSA Update on Registered Traveler Program

When Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley came by the Aviation Week offices for an editorial roundtable Dec. 7, I asked him for updates on the registered traveler program and the GE Security's shoe scanning machines.  You can hear his reply here  in a 6:27 minute Podcast I produced.

To get another point of view, click here to hear Business Travel Coalition head Kevin Mitchell's 20-minute interview with FLO Corporation CEO Glenn Argenbright.

And if that's not enough for you, click here to read an article in Aviation Daily sister publication BusinessWeek magazine on how the bureaucracy of the Dept. of Homeland Security has hurt the growth prospects for the registered traveler program.

Kip Hawley Updates Progress on Secure Flight

Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration, talks with Aviation Week about challenges facing his agency as political battles on Capitol Hill delay TSA's Fiscal 2008 funding.

Hawley explains how the budget battle could delay Secure Flight -- the long-anticipated federal plan for pre-screening airline passengers' names against a terrorist watch list.  Click here  to listen to a 6:25 podcast with Hawley.