TSA is starting to crack. Now pilots will be exempt from airport security checks. How does that make you feel, Trinity?

Nov 19, 4:04 PM EST

TSA: Pilots to be exempt from some airport checks


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration has agreed to allow airline pilots to skip security scanning and pat-downs, pilot organizations said Friday. Pilots traveling in uniform on airline business will be allowed to pass security by presenting two photo IDs, one from their company and one from the government, to be checked against a secure flight crew database, officials at the pilot groups said.

"This looks good. It's basically what we've been after for 10 years," says Sam Mayer, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association at American Airlines, the union that raised objections to the new screening process about two weeks ago. "Pilots are not the threat here; we're the target."

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