Officials with the Transportation Security Administration\n(TSA) announced today that it has begun installing four state-of-the-art,\ncomputed tomography (CT) X-ray scanners in the security checkpoint at Lihue\nAirport (LIH). Installation of the four scanners began this week and will\ncontinue through late next week with the first unit becoming operational by the\nend of this week. During installation, travelers should plan to arrive at LIH\nmore than two hours prior to flight departure due to high departing passenger\nvolumes and installation work in the security checkpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new CT scanners will be used to screen travelers\u2019\ncarry-on luggage in the security checkpoints. CT units apply a sophisticated\nalgorithm as they generate a 3-D image of the contents of the carry-on bag. A\nTSA officer can manipulate the 3-D X-ray image on-screen to allow for a better\nview of the bag\u2019s contents, ultimately reducing the number of bag checks that\nare required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a carry-on bag is screened through a CT scanner,\ntravelers can leave everything in their carry-on bag, including electronics\nlarger than a cell phone and food. The opening to he X-ray tunnel on a CT unit\nis slightly smaller than on a traditional X-ray unit so TSA advises travelers\nnot to force larger items into the tunnel, but to ask a TSA officer for\nassistance. Another feature of the CT scanner system is every carry-on item\nmust be placed in a bin for screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the CT scanners, TSA also recently installed\nCredential Authentication Technology (CAT) at LIH. There are currently four\nunits in use that are able to confirm the validity of a traveler\u2019s photo\nidentification and confirm flight information in real-time. When travelers\napproach the travel document checking podium and CAT is in use, they need to\nhand over their photo identification to the TSA officer. CAT units are designed\nto identify fraudulent documents and those that have been tampered with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe introduction of these new technologies at LIH will\nraise the bar for security operations and improve the customer travel\nexperience. For passengers departing LIH, please listen to the directions given\nby TSA officers since this will speed your trip through the security\ncheckpoint,\u201d said TSA acting Federal Security Director for Hawaii Scot Thaxton.\n\u201cTSA remains committed to providing the highest level of security with the\ngreatest efficiency. Both of these technologies help to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the summer travel season upon us, TSA anticipates a\nsustained high number of travelers departing LIH. Travelers can expect that the\nsecurity checkpoints at LIH will be extremely busy from 10:00 AM to about 2:00\nPM. The busiest days to travel are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TSA strives to get travelers through the general security\nscreening process in less than 30 minutes and through TSA PreCheck screening in\nless than 10 minutes. For those who are traveling during peak times on peak\ndays, there will be periods during the day when the number of passengers who\nneed to be screened may exceed the capacity of the checkpoint. These peaks are\ndriven by the flight departure schedules determined by the airlines with the\nstate of Hawaii\u2019s concurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Travel advice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TSA continues to ask travelers to arrive early and prepared\nfor the screening experience to allow for timely completion of every step of\nthe travel process. To help things go smoothly, please follow these tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that it has begun installing four state-of-the-art, computed tomography (CT) X-ray scanners in the security checkpoint at Lihue Airport (LIH). Installation of the four scanners began this week and will continue through late next week with the first unit becoming operational by the end of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22462,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions\/22462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}