{"id":2743,"date":"2007-01-03T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T16:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2007-01-03T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T16:51:21","slug":"tsas_latest_spo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"TSA&#8217;s Latest: Sponsored X-Ray Bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/Articles\/2007\/01\/03\/Navigation\/177\/211368\/Picture+US+Transportation+Safety+Agency+seeks+free+equipment+and+fewer+staff+injuries+through.html\">John Croft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is launching a one-year pilot programme to allow companies to place advertisements in bins at passenger screening checkpoints at &ldquo;select&rdquo; US airports in return for equipment donations.<\/p>\n<p>The effort follows a 3-month test programme at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) security checkpoints that started in July.<\/p>\n<p>TSA is looking for commercial advertising companies who will team with an airport to provide divestiture bins (the plastic bins used to transport passenger carry-on items through the X-ray machine); divestiture and composure tables; and bin return carts free-of-charge to the TSA. In return, the companies will be allowed to place airport-approved ads &ldquo;on the bottom of the inside of the bins,&rdquo; says a TSA spokeswoman. Airports partnered with ad companies will ultimately be required to screen the materials for &ldquo;offensive, obtrusive, political or controversial&rdquo; content, she adds.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a bad idea, actually.  How about a free bottle of water with the ad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Croft: The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is launching a one-year pilot programme to allow companies to place advertisements in bins at passenger screening checkpoints at &ldquo;select&rdquo; US airports in return for equipment donations. The effort follows a 3-month test programme at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) security checkpoints that started in July. TSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39,23,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}