1.  What is the IATA?

2.  Regarding the IATA's "Checkpoint of the Future":
a)  How does it work? (see para. 2, 10-11)
b)  What is its purpose?

3.  What type of program will the U.S. TSA probably launch this year? (para. 9-10)

4.  Do you agree with IATA head Giovanni Bisignani's statements below?  Explain your answer.

• "Passengers should be able to get from curb to boarding gate with dignity. That means without stopping, stripping or unpacking, and certainly not groping." (from para. 3)
• "We must amalgamate intelligence based on passenger information and new technology. That means moving from a system that looks for bad objects, to one that can find bad people." (from para. 12)

5.  The head of Interpol thinks that an obstacle to the IATA's checkpoint will be that governments will not want to share information about their citizens with other countries.  Another obstacle not mentioned in the article could be the fact that U.S. (and other) citizens might not want to give personal information (including retina scans, etc.) over to airport security.  Also not mentioned in the article is what type of scanning machine people with no security risk will need to go through (what the machine will scan).  What do you think: is it too late for those opposed to sharing such personal information (body and/or retina scans) to do anything about it?  Is there an alternate way to prevent terrorists from boarding planes?  Explain your answers.

6.  a) What concern does Elyezer Shkedy of El Al Israel Airlines have about the new "Checkpoint" program? 
b)  Do you agree with his assertion?  Explain your answer.