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Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport gets update
HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has a new $23 million security checkpoint building, where airline passengers will be screened before heading off to catch their flights.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports that the new facility, which opened fully within the past week, is expected to speed up the security process.
“It used to be that it would be hard to get people into the shortest lanes because you couldn’t see what’s going on downstairs,” said Paul Wisniewski, the local federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration. “This should run a lot smoother than in the past, and even then we didn’t have very long wait times even during peak times.”
Construction on the new checkpoint began in 2007 after being approved by the Kenton County Airport Board the previous year.
Airport spokeswoman Barb Schempf said the facilities were needed despite the dramatic drop in flights and passengers in the last three years, because the screening area served the local market and not passengers transferring through Delta Air Lines’ hub here.
The airport paid for almost all of the new building and checkpoint, with the TSA contributing $700,000 for a new security camera system.
