Sentence examples for passenger checkpoints from inspiring English sources

But inattention at the passenger checkpoints is unlikely to have been a factor in Saturday's crash.

But in August 2006, when the arrests were made, security at passenger checkpoints focused mostly on detecting metals.

Those trace detectors, which are already used to screen carry-on bags at many passenger checkpoints, would be put in the lobbies near the check-in counters.

To improve safety and address service complaints, "some element of lawful profiling is essential" at passenger checkpoints, Michael Wascom, a spokesman, said yesterday.

Another 900 of the machines that scan carry-on bags at passenger checkpoints have been upgraded, to make it easier to find hidden weapons or explosives.

He compared the likely effect to the actions taken by the Federal Aviation Administration right after Sept. 11, when the flow rate through passenger checkpoints was cut by three-quarters, producing waits of two to three hours.

There are two kinds of passenger checkpoint screening lanes in a typical US airport: a Normal Lane and a Selectee Lane that has enhanced scrutiny.

But Argenbright Security, one of the largest contractors, will quickly be eliminated from the passenger screening checkpoints, they added.

Another point of debate was over whether the federal government should take over operation of the 700 passenger screening checkpoints around the country.

The statement also said some control towers required no guards because they were inside airports, and to reach them, controllers and visitors had to pass passenger screening checkpoints.

When installed in X-ray mathines at passenger screening checkpoints, it projects a false image of a "threat object" into the picture of a carry-on as a test for the screener.