Sec. Mullin on TSA Allowing Non-Passengers to Meet Loved Ones at the Gate: A Program That Doesn’t Compromise Security at All

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MULLIN: “We have loved ones, I mean, I have kids that when they were younger they would fly and my wife and I would have to get special permission to be able to walk them to the gate and let them go. Well, it's not just kids, it's also adults, it's our wives, it's our parents, elderly parents, or our grandparents that we want to pick up at the gate. And so we're trying to look at how can we do this better and still keep everybody safe. Well, so we started going through the same thing as known passengers or global entry. If we can do it with that, we can also do it with passengers that may need special assistance or just a little extra attention. What about veterans that are coming back that their loved ones want to meet them at the gate? So, we came up with a program that doesn't compromise security at all. It's just part of the known passenger process and we hope that it'll help the passenger experience because TSA sometimes kind of gets a bad name and well we're going to approve that.”