1.   Hand luggage and checked bags must go through Customs.

2.   Although Mineta singled out searching all checked bags by hand or with dogs as too labor-intensive, the law allows alternatives.

3.   Among those getting around, the question of how to pack and what to take is more complicated than putting their sharp objects in checked bags.

4.   A TWA spokesman, Mark Abels, said the airline had made sure that every checked bag in the cargo hold belonged to someone on board.

5.   Absent from the recommendations was a proposal to require every checked bag to be matched with a passenger.

6.   Additionally, after two years all airports would be required to purchase and use explosives detection screening machines on all checked bags.

7.   Airlines will also immediately begin searching or X-raying a larger percentage of checked bags.

8.   But those are still months from being in place for checked bags.

9.   Congress should also insist that all checked bags on domestic flights be matched to passengers, as is already done on international flights.

10.   Few details have emerged on how airlines intend to screen all checked bags without creating gridlock in the air travel system.