El Al Doesn't Trust the TSA
They want to do security themselves at Newark Airport, as they already do at four other U.S. airports.
No other airline has such an arrangement with U.S. officials, authorities acknowledged. At the four other airports, El Al has installed its own security software at bomb-detection machines, which authorities said is more sensitive than that used by American carriers.
rick • May 23, 2006 4:12 PM
I understand that even back in the late eighties El-Al already did that, with several «security» barriers, such as multiple interviews with the passengers, and fighters escorting El Al’s planes even on foreign countries, such as Portugal.
I found some info in this portuguese reporter’s blog post: http://blogda-se.blogspot.com/2006/03/israel-1989-na-primeira-intifada-o.html