OTTAWA—Officials at Pearson International Airport are pressing Ottawa to cough up more funding to ease backlogs at security and customs checkpoints that have left thousands of air travellers fuming. The authority is also urging Ottawa to earmark another $20 million to the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority to improve security screening at Pearson alone. “Additional staff resources are essential to handle current and future growth,” the airport authority stated in its submission to the committee. The agency that oversees airport security is testing a new way of screening that it hopes will ease the backlogs and hassles endured by travellers. The agency installed the new arrangement on a single security line at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in mid-August.

Source: thestar October 20, 2016 23:11 UTC