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Dulles opens new security area

In September, Washington Dulles International Airport opened two new security screening areas in a new mezzanine level of the airport. The mezzanine level is accessible by new escalators throughout the terminal.

The screening area is 121,700 square feet, and has space for 32 security lanes. The expansion is aimed at speeding up security, and also opening up the ticketing level (where the security lanes were formerly located) and restoring views of the airfield.

Sources: Washington Post, wtoop.com, metwashairports.com

New cell-phone lot at Philadelphia airport in the works

Persons waiting to pick up arriving travelers at Philadelphia International Airport may have a cell-phone lot just off of I-95 available to them as soon as January 1.

Responding to the recent crackdown by police on drivers waiting on freeway shoulders and nearby roads for incoming flights, a 150-space cell-phone lot will be constructed on airport property and clearly signed. Currently a remote park-and-ride lot is used for that purpose but there are no signs indicating its presence or location.

Source: USA Today