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Bypassing Airport Security at the Grand Hyatt Dallas/Fort Worth

Where: 2337 South International Parkway, P.O. Box 619045, [map], Dallas, TX, United States, 75261-9045

December 6, 2006 at 11:33 AM | 0 Comments

The Grand Hyatt at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport has been secretly testing a pilot program for the last two weeks that allow hotel guests to bypass airport security without a boarding pass.

Don't worry, the TSA is on it as they are studying how the hotel lets guests into the "secured side of the airport after being specially screened." The study is part of a larger security study on airport hotels.

Anyone staying at the Grand Hyatt who wants to get through the security checkpoint to browse in the shops, eat at the restaurants and visit the bars will be checked by an airport police officer in the hotel's lobby. The police officer will check that person's name against the federal no-fly list maintained by the TSA.

The guest then must go through the same sort of screening as a passenger would at the airport terminals. Randomly, hotel guests are told about the program when they ask for other restaurants to eat at inside the airport. Up next to test the program would be the Detroit Metro Airport and its infamous not-so-soundproofed Westin Hotel.

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