The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) appears to be taking seriously the 7,000-plus submitted comments opposing the proposed large aircraft security program (LASP) regulations. John Sammon, TSA assistant administrator for transportation sector network management, soothed attendees at the NATA Air Charter Summit last month when he said, “We rely to a large extent on NATA members for developing operational solutions. What we’re trying to do is put things in place that work in the real world. Except for running checkpoints, TSA doesn’t do security in the real world. You do it.” The TSA’s focus, he said, is on deploying security efforts that are “operation-ally feasible” and on working with NATA to solve security problems.
After the NPRM comment period closed and the TSA held public meetings to solicit more comments, the agency invited aviation associations to two meetings–on April 6 and May 6–to discuss the LASP proposal. At those meetings, the TSA asked the associations, “What would you do if you were going to design a general aviation security program?”
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