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Airport Security Deadlines

September 9, 2002


November 19, 2001

  • President Bush signed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act and created the Transportation Security Administration.
  • Airlines directed to reinforce cockpit doors with locks or steel bars.
  • January 18, 2002

  • The TSA must inspect checked luggage more closely be hand, with bomb'sniffing dogs, explosive detection machines or by matching bags to passengers.
  • Passengers must pay new $5 fee per leg of each flight to help pay for security.
  • The TSA required to develop new training plans for airline flight crews and federal security screeners.
  • February 17, 2002

  • The TSA officially takes over private'screening contracts from airlines.
  • March 19, 2002

  • Airlines required to submit security training plans for pilots and flight attendants to the TSA.
  • October 15, 2002

  • Airlines must complete security training for flight crews.
  • November 19, 2002

  • The TSA must hire and have trained nearly 30,000 federal airport'security screeners at the nation's 429 airports.
  • December 31, 2002

  • The TSA must screen every passenger's luggage with an explosive detection machine.
  • January 2003

  • The TSA is proposed to join a new Homeland Security Department.
  • April 9, 2003

  • Airlines are required to install reinforced cockpit doors on aircraft.
  • November 19, 2004

  • Airports may elect to revert back to private screening companies or keep federal screeners.
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