Tag: JFK airport
ISC West travel meets TSA reality
March 18, 2026Cory Harris, Editor
ISC West is just days away, and tens of thousands of security professionals are preparing to descend on Las Vegas for the biggest industry event of the year. I’m one of them - or at least I’m supposed to be.
But as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers across the country work without pay and staffing shortages worsen, the reliability of air travel itself is suddenly in question.
When airport security becomes unpredictable, even a routine cross‑country trip feels...
Second security lapse at JFK reported
August 20, 2012Martha Entwistle
A few days after a jet skier swam to shore and breached the security perimeter of JFK airport here by climbing a fence, reports of another security lapse has been reported.
The New York Post on August 16 reported that it had obtained a secret memo describing an unsecured gate on the airport property. The gate protects a main jet fuel supply line into the airport, the report said.The gate “was left vulnerable because a security camera was either malfunctioning or not designed to pick up the...