Kansas City International Airport

Kansas City International Airport {{airport codes|MCI|KMCI}} is an airport in Kansas City, Missouri, in Platte County.

Security issues

This design is very traveler-friendly, but was designed before skyjacking and terrorism became a part of the air travel mentality. Therefore, the airport is very expensive to operate, since rather than having a single security checkpoint to pass through, each cluster of 2 or 3 gates must have its own x-ray, metal detector and guards. This expense caused TWA to use Lambert field in St. Louis as its hub rather than MCI.

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After the establishment of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), MCI was one of five airports where the TSA has experimented with using independent contractors to provide all traveler inspector services. TSA uses independent contractor security staff who conform to TSA's recruiting and training standards. TSA supervises these independent contractors, but they are not federal employees.

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See: TSA Announcement of Private Security Screening Pilot Program

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