Honolulu has rather small numbers when you consider millions of passengers leave or come into Honolulu every year. One is certainly too many, but if we're going to have a number, I'd rather have it be a low number than something that's monumental.
But if you leave and you go somewhere else and then you call a week, two weeks, three weeks later, it certainly makes it more difficult to research that.
We have good men and women who are dedicated to the security of aviation and to the security of the transportation system, and I think we need to recognize that we have more good people working for us than we do bad.
Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.
We're going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because it's random, we're not going to offer any details.
As far as I can tell, things are status quo. There's nothing out of the ordinary.
TSA is interested in state-of-the-art technology and enhancing the security screening system while increasing convenience for our customers. Certainly explosives detection is something we're interested in.
The TSA is constantly in pursuit of new technology to improve security and enhance our explosive-detection capabilities.
The TSA believes that these small items don't pose a threat to aviation security.
We will research and investigate each claim fully and take steps when necessary because we expect our screeners to live up to a higher standard than anyone else.
