airport security
Pre-flight screening process
Airport security refers to the measures, personnel, and procedures designed to prevent threats aboard aircraft and in airport facilities.
This includes passenger screening, baggage inspection, and access control.
The term often refers specifically to the checkpoint experience: We got stuck in airport security for an hour.
Since 2001, airport security has become synonymous with removing shoes, liquid restrictions, and body scanners.
- checkpointInspection station on route
- air marshalCovert airline security agent
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- body scannerDevice imaging beneath garments
- pat downManual body search
random search · no-fly lists · metal detector · air traffic control · TSA · prohibited · skyjacking · x-ray machines · wand · shoe removal · threat assessment · passenger safety · ID · terminal · carry-on · air piracy · queue · scanner
- screeningshealth screening, drug test, cancer screening, prenatal screening, genetic screening
- airportsterminals, terminal building, runway, runways, gates
- securityalarm system, lock, safe, alarm, camera
- travel securitypassport control, baggage screening, TSA, metal detectors, body scanners
- screenersTSA agents
- police workpatrol, arrests, arrest, stings, investigation
airport securitycustoms
Traditional practices or import taxes
immigration control · baggage claim · check-in counter · passport control · passenger services
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