US relaxes airport screenings for aged

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From this weekend the aged will no longer have to take off shoes, belts and jackets as they pass through security checkpoints at New York’s three major airports: John F. Kennedy International, La Guardia, and Newark Liberty.

The moving Security Administration has said compress of the new measures to the rest of the country could follow.

David Castelveter, chief spokesman of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). said ”Seventy-five-plus is in the process of being rolled out and clients will see it over the route of the summer and beyond,”

Castelveter said he did not have a precise timetable, but the New York rollout was probable to take place through the imminent three-day weekend that unofficially kicks off the US summer vacation season.

Last September the TSA decisive to allow children 12 and under to pass through screening without removing their shoes.

The improved TSA airport screening was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States in which the attackers used airplanes as arsenal.

The Al-Qaeda attacks claimed 2976 lives in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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