FEDS' CONFUSION GREETS AIRLINES

摘要

Two days before the Jan. 18 deadline for U.S. airlines to comply with new baggage screening regulations, the federal government appeared to be in a state of utter confusion about exactly what it was requiring. On Jan. 16, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta gave a speech in which he indicated that each bag loaded onto an originating flight would have to be matched to an onboard passenger. That's a vastly stricter guideline than what the airlines had been preparing for: using bag matching as just one option in multifaceted screening plans.