USA: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is working to improve airport screening after major lapses last year, a U.S. government investigator said on Tuesday, adding that the agency has embraced oversight. In a covert audit, department staff succeeded in bringing banned items through airport checkpoints and raised concerns about the TSA's vetting of its workforce. Updated Wed, June 8th 2016 at 00:08 GMT +3Travelers stand in line to go through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) check-points at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, U.S., May 31, 2016. Delta Air Lines Inc and Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, opened two lines last month that automate the distribution of bins for carry-on bags at checkpoints, to avoid screening bottlenecks. In addition, he said TSA is working with about a dozen airports to increasingly automate screening and create a "true curb-to-gate security environment, as opposed to just focusing it all around that checkpoint."

Source: Standard Digital June 07, 2016 16:52 UTC