1.   Another airline industry expert dismissed the Friday deadline for baggage screening as a charade.

2.   At the airports armored cars were stationed along the runways and there was more baggage screening.

3.   Currently, airlines contract out passenger and baggage screening to low-bidding private security companies, many of them with headquarters in Europe.

4.   Currently, airlines or private security firms do all baggage screening.

5.   No baggage screening.

6.   Now that the airport has grappled successfully with that problem, the full baggage screening and other new security mandates pose bigger obstacles, he said.

7.   Other developments on the day before checked baggage screening goes into effect.

8.   Two months later, Congress passed an aviation security bill that mandated a federal takeover of airport passenger and baggage screening.

9.   Amtrak spokeswoman Cecilia Cummings said the railroad already does some baggage screening, but checking all bags would require substantial financial investment.

10.   At the KLIA, baggage screening will be done after a passenger has checked in his or her luggage.