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Airport security lines for frequent passengers accelerated undergo pre-screening by the transportation security administration will roll out three additional airports in the coming months, TSA Administrator John Pistole told a Senate panel on November 9.
This Program, known as PreCheck, will arrive in the “Select checks” on the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport in December and the Los Angeles International Airport and Minneapolis-St. Paul International in the first two months of the year 2012, Pistole told the Senate Commerce, science and Transportation Committee.
The TSA announced in October with a pilot programme of PreCheck airline at the airport in Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami.
Purpose, Pistole told the Committee, is to extend PreCheck “as widely as possible.” Wider expansion may have to wait for the airline’s high-profile mergers to consolidate the information technology systems, Pistole added, citing the merger of United and continental, and Southwest Airlines AirTran acquisition.