Mar 28, 2008 -London Heathrow Airport scraps a plan to fingerprint all departures at a new domestic terminal after a government watchdog voices opposition.
Mar 26, 2008 -The agency says that the number of flights covered by federal air marshals is in the thousands and that the marshals are deployed on particular flights based on intelligence and risk.
Mar 20, 2008 -A civil liberties group has taken the Israeli government to court, challenging the common practice of ethnic profiling in airline security.
Mar 17, 2008 -The airline industry says fingerprinting foreign visitors leaving the United States is a government function the private sector should not bear.
Jan 09, 2008 -The FAA says hackers may be able to use the plane's broadband Internet access to break into the plane's computer system which controls the plane's vital functions.