The employees in the case work for Firstline Transportation Security and inspect baggage at Kansas City International Airport.
Instead, they argue that the Transportation Security Administration has to date managed to hire and train exactly 166 people to inspect baggage.
The restrictions have since been relaxed, though Aeroflot's flights to Kiev are now held on the tarmac while armed officers with dogs inspect baggage and cargo.
More than 1,600 machines that function like a doctor's office M.R.I. have been installed at airports nationwide to inspect checked baggage.
Apparently not, because the Transportation Security Administration also inspects your baggage, which can even mean opening your bag and rifling through the contents.
One review will determine if the additional screeners put to work since September had received adequate training and were properly inspecting passengers and baggage, and the other will assess recent progress in installing advanced technology for detecting explosives in checked baggage.
Federal authorities have ordered special scrutiny of all Yemeni citizens seeking to enter or leave the United States and are thoroughly inspecting all their baggage, the Justice Department said tonight.
But lines remained at the security checkpoints as weary passengers waited to take off their shoes and have their carry-on baggage inspected all over again.
That shooting drew immediate attention to the fact that security guards at the building did not inspect handbags or baggage, nor did they have metal detectors.
Under the new aviation security law, a system must be in place by Jan . 18to inspect all checked baggage for explosives.
