How Has Airport Security Changed After 9/11

The attacks on the United Stated on September 11,2001 were the worse attacks ever on the US. Since the attacks, how has airport security changed?” After the hijackings, the president and the United States Congress faced an immediate challenge to restore public confidence in the security of passenger airline travel”. Is it better or worse? Let us hope it has changed for the better. In November of 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created because of the attacks on September 11, 2001. It was formed through the passage of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. The TSA completed extensive background checks for airport employees and ramped up airport police officers. There were about twenty-thousand airport screeners before the attacks and now there are about forty-two thousand which are now union federal employees. Before September 11th, they were hired by the airlines. “Security background checks for certain airport workers are required at all commercial passenger
The air marshal workforce has also been increased to five thousand from the few one hundred before September 11th. The “Federal Flight Deck Officer” program was created to give the pilots permission to carry guns with the proper training. “Monitoring and surveillance of the aircraft cabin is very important because someone in the bathroom could do something very dangerous.” Airport security also added bullet proof doors to the cockpit that lock from the inside. “All cargo operators must demonstrate that they have other security measures in place to ensure that unauthorized individuals are not allowed to access the aircraft.” The TSA also created a carrier training program to assist flight attendants in handling hijack situations. Air-carriers are required to report all incidents and suspicious activity to the