20 Quotes by Nico Melendez

TSA is interested in state-of-the-art technology and enhancing the security screening system while increasing convenience for our customers. Certainly explosives detection is something we're interested in.

We fully expect passengers to be able to come to LAX this summer and be able to move through the checkpoints in a timely manner.

We don't want our screeners to be acting inappropriately, because we are in a position of public trust and if we violate that trust, then we're not doing our job.

As far as I can tell, things are status quo. There's nothing out of the ordinary.

They're working weird shifts, they're working long hours and working under extreme conditions and working under conditions, where they have to deal with passengers that sometimes are not too friendly.

A lot of times we have passengers make claims against us as well, but when we go back and look at videotape, we see that another passenger took it from them at the security checkpoint and it had nothing to do with our screeners.

It's everything you can possibly imagine people shouldn't take to the airport.

The TSA is constantly in pursuit of new technology to improve security and enhance our explosive-detection capabilities.

The TSA believes that these small items don't pose a threat to aviation security.