When it comes to traveling, one of the biggest headaches is airport security. You have to dump your water bottle, wait in line, take everything out of your bag, remove your shoes, and hope everything goes smoothly.

MCO TSA Precheck

The Transportation Security Administration announced a new screening called TSA Gold+ that would provide seamless, secure, and efficient screenings. It was announced back in May, but after a three-month trial, it’s already ending!

When it was first announced, the TSA said that TSA Gold+ is a “new public-private partnership aimed at modernizing aviation security at select airports across the United States. TSA Gold+ will pair the Screening Partnership Program with TSA’s innovation authorities to enable cutting-edge aviation security solutions.” TSA Gold+ would privatize airport security and modernize screening for travelers.

MCO Airport Security

TSA just announced plans to replace Gold+ with a new evolved Screening Partnership Program to “better harness the role of the private sector in delivering a safer, more secure, and more efficient aviation system.” The goal is to “modernize TSA’s checkpoints, elevate the traveler experience, and harden multi-modal transportation security.”

Security at MCO

The new strategy also involves “enhancing TSA PreCheck, improving the passenger experience, streamlining the acquisition of new technology, expanding TSA’s capabilities to counter the threat of unmanned aircraft systems and advancing other key priorities,” TSA said in the press release.

MCO Airport TSA

Additionally, the Tampa Airport, which trialed TSA Gold+ back in May, has officially ended the program. The airport will continue checkpoint screening operations with its existing TSA officers. “Opting in allowed TPA officials to learn about program details and provisions, including security, workforce, technology, financial, and legal considerations, before moving forward,” the airport said in a statement. “The airport conducted an extensive review and evaluation over several months, which resulted in its decision to keep screening operations exclusively with the TSA, and not adopt the Gold+ model.”

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We’ll be sure to keep you updated on these new security measures. Stay tuned to Disney Food Blog for more travel news!

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