This is a salvation for a city straining to comply with federal air quality regulations.
All sides want more federal air marshals, enhanced security and protections in airplane cockpits.
"I think a federal air marshal might find that a bit confusing, " Wallace said.
Kansas City Aviation Department officials told KMBC that the woman failed to cooperate with a federal air marshal.
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And the term "FAM" is now used by the Federal Air Marshal Service.
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Two more needles were discovered, including one found by a federal air marshal.
Aviation insurers as well as unions representing flight attendants, pilots and federal air marshals have also publically opposed the plan.
Closer to home, airlines have struggled this week with delays caused by a slowdown in the federal air traffic control system.
However, not all flights have federal air marshals or armed pilots onboard.
The precautions were to include armed federal air marshals on every flight in and out of the airport and double screenings of passengers.
Security at various airports overseas has been stepped up ahead of the anniversary, and federal air marshals have been sent abroad, ABC reported.
The precautions are expected to include armed federal air marshals on every flight in and out of the airport and double screenings of passengers.
Those measures include a ban on all knives aboard planes, the elimination of curbside and off-airport check-ins, and the use of federal air marshals.
The policy, which goes into effect April 25, has sparked strong opposition from flight attendants, federal air marshals, some pilot unions, and even aviation insurers.
You can never guarantee that you're going to have a federal air marshal, or federal air marshal team, in the cabin to defend that cockpit.
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He added that gun-carrying pilots, federal air marshals and airline crew members trained in self-defense provided security to protect against the misuse of the newly added items.
"It's not just the (Federal Air Marshal Service), it's all of my guys, " he said, noting that law enforcement officers are allowed to carry weapons during commercial flights.
In the eight years since the Federal Air Marshal Service has been ramping up, only a handful of incidents have been publicly reported, most involving drunk or unruly passengers.
"The passenger was detained, not arrested, and then released pending further investigation by the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) and federal air marshals, " said Tom McKenna, a Kansas City International Airport spokesman.
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Pistole said his agency consulted with its federal air marshals and other experts before making the change, and that led to the continued prohibition of the sturdier knifes with short blades.
This includes increasing the number of federal air marshals.
These funds will be used to sustain the current cap level of 46, 000 full time screening personnel, and for explosive detection systems, security enforcement, cargo inspections, Federal Air Marshals, and other TSA activities.
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But after consulting with Federal Air Marshal Service leaders, the agency opted to continue excluding knives that most closely resemble weapons, specifically knives with blades that lock in place, or have molded hand grips.
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The presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the items, he said.
On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that aviation security was being tightened to include enhanced random screening, additional federal air marshals and the addition of names to the terrorist watch list.
The Federal Air Marshal Service officially began in 1968 as the Federal Aviation Administration's Sky Marshal Program, and in the 1970s, extortion-type hijackings in the Middle East led to the deployment of some air marshals overseas.
Law enforcement officers and military personnel made up most of the first recruits to join the agency's replenished ranks in October 2001, said Jamie Smith, a former federal air marshal instructor and current CEO of SCG International, a global security firm.
Sitting in an office adorned with model spaceships, he argues that the proposed Texas spaceport would neither depend on federal money nor require the use of federal air space, two factors he believes will entice aerospace companies that want to minimise bureaucracy.
Raun and Ensor conclude that federal air quality standards are adequate where ozone levels are concerned (at 75 parts per billion), but that lives would be saved if particulate matter standards were tightened below the current level of 35 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
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In the nine days since the TSA opened a can of worms by announcing it would ease the ban on small knives in airline cabins, the list of groups concerned or opposed to the idea has grown to include airlines, airport screeners, federal air marshals, flight attendants and pilots.
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