US: Those long security lines at airports? They may move quicker soon

There is a glimmer of hope that the frustrating, slow airport security experience will get a little smoother over the next few years. In a partnership with American Airlines, the TSA introduced a new kind of machine last month to screen carry-on bags in Terminal 8 at Kennedy International in New York. The machines, the agency says, improve on the current system, in which most travellers have their carry-on bags screened by X-ray machines that produce only two-dimensional images of their contents. If agents are unsure of what they’re seeing, they pull the bag aside and inspect its contents manually. With the new machines, the TSA says, security agents will be better able to analyse what is inside a bag and will be less likely to have to perform searches by hand. <br/>