Nico Melendez
Nico Melendez
busier christmas indication problems thanksgiving
If Thanksgiving was any indication -- it's much busier than Christmas, and we had no real problems -- things will be fine.
stay step
It is a continual progression. We need to stay one step ahead.
constantly enhance improve pursuit security technology
The TSA is constantly in pursuit of new technology to improve security and enhance our explosive-detection capabilities.
across air blows body contact particles screening thereby
It blows air across your body and dislodges microscopic particles that you may have been in contact with, thereby screening for explosives.
aviation believes items pose small threat
The TSA believes that these small items don't pose a threat to aviation security.
call certainly difficult leave research somewhere three weeks
But if you leave and you go somewhere else and then you call a week, two weeks, three weeks later, it certainly makes it more difficult to research that.
cause certainly immediate invite kinds managers matter passengers pepper please security somebody spray
If we were to find that somebody did get through a checkpoint with pepper spray or any other kinds of spray for that matter that are prohibited, certainly there would be cause for concern. If passengers think they got through security accidentally with something that they shouldn't have, we invite them to please come back to the checkpoint and tell our supervisors, tell our managers at the checkpoints so that we can take immediate action.
far status
As far as I can tell, things are status quo. There's nothing out of the ordinary.
certainly consider honolulu leave low millions numbers passengers rather small
Honolulu has rather small numbers when you consider millions of passengers leave or come into Honolulu every year. One is certainly too many, but if we're going to have a number, I'd rather have it be a low number than something that's monumental.
conditions deal extreme hours passengers weird
They're working weird shifts, they're working long hours and working under extreme conditions and working under conditions, where they have to deal with passengers that sometimes are not too friendly.
imagine people possibly
It's everything you can possibly imagine people shouldn't take to the airport.
anyone claim expect fully higher necessary research standard steps
We will research and investigate each claim fully and take steps when necessary because we expect our screeners to live up to a higher standard than anyone else.
aware cleaver constantly meat possible security specific today train
We're not aware of that specific case, so there's nothing we can do about a possible meat cleaver getting through security. I can tell you that security today is better than it ever has been. We constantly train and re-train our screeners at the security checkpoints.
expect fully lax move passengers summer timely
We fully expect passengers to be able to come to LAX this summer and be able to move through the checkpoints in a timely manner.