By AP/KWMU
Washington, DC – The federal government won't take baggage screeners away from Lambert Airport, after all. Lambert will gain 29 screeners, instead of losing 93.
The Transportation Security Administration, the government agency created a few years ago when private screening jobs were federalized, announced plans earlier this year to reallocate the nation's 45,000 screeners.
Lambert would have taken the biggest hit, a drop of 21%. But Missouri's two U.S. Senators, Jim Talent and Kit Bond, asked the TSA to reconsider because it used old passenger count data.
Talent on Thursday called the agency's reversal "great news" for Lambert passengers concerned about spending long periods in security lines.