ACTE PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
TSA To ACTE: New Criteria For Secondary Search Trigger Top Priority For
Government Agency
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Alexandria, VA (Jan. 6) -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
has assured the Association of Corporate Travel Executives that a new
criteria for triggering the secondary search of travelers has become a top
priority in the face of changing corporate purchasing trends. In today's
regularly scheduled briefing call, the association expressed concern that
new airfare discounts were based on one-way flights and that business
travelers flying on one-way tickets would suddenly be subject to intensified
secondary searches.
"One way tickets are known to be a source of red flags," said ACTE President
Greeley Koch. "Yet to take advantage of new fare discounts, many travelers
may be flying out on one carrier and coming back on another. Under the
present system, this could trigger a lot of secondary searches and create an
increased potential for delay."
Presiding over the call, Admiral David Stone responded by assuring the
association that the TSA was aware of the problem and had made changing the
criteria for secondary searches a top priority. The TSA declined to say when
the changes might be implemented. ACTE advises its members that while the
issue has been broached, secondary searches may still increase until the
problem is officially resolved.
ACTE's Traveler
Security Task Force has added this issue to others it will be monitoring in
the first few months of 2005. The association will begin polling members to
determine the increase of secondary searches in January. Other issues before
the task force are privacy concerns, the negative effects of certain
security procedures on business travel, and public awareness of crucial
developments.
For more information, contact:
Jack Riepe
Global Communications Director
t: 610-719-8396
c: 610-256-0124
e: riepeacte.com
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