ee The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH e Friday .February 1,2002 position big-screen televisions also will be looking for unli S.L. Airport complete with security clearance, baggage pickup and rides reserved for ticket holders. Theywill be complemented by Braces for Busy Olympic Weeks to guest accommodations. A similar system was used to good effect in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Games. Bolstered by$21.7 million in federal funding. securityat the airport will be tight. Roughly 55 full-time airport police officers, National Guard troops and 10 bomb-sniffing dog teams. Gann said airport security will stay in close touch with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agencyand $12.7 million is paying for sophisticated bomb-detection Most Olympic visitors arTriving from abroad will clear Customs at other U.S. airports said. little extra time,” he said. “T from the fact that they are in outgoing checked luggage. Another $9 million is paying for extra workers to operate the before their arrival in Utah, al- @ Continued from A-1 900 bus drivers from across the country are coming in to help shuttle spectators, athletes and officials. As for spectator numbers,it is impossible to say. “We refer to them as the wild card in this because even if you track [Olympic] ticket sales. that doesn’t necessarily represent” Secret Service. machines that will screen all machines. The airlines will have an extra 400 workers on the ma- venirs would-be Elaborate as they are, the security and Olympic transportation arrangements are not expected to inconvenience passengers, Campbell “Passengers should allowa ittired in 1940s nurse will rescue passengers with emergency cocoa. A children’s choir may perform as well e want to keepthe festival feeling alive and distract people would say arriving at the air- long lines,” Gann said though passengers on eight port 2 hours before your sched- charter flights are slated for Customs checks in the international terminal. uled flight is still a good rule of Also, the Federal Aviation Administration has banned in- In keeping with SLOC’s lock on Olympic paraphernalia, chines and staffing security checkpoints in concourse areas Olympic in by Gann said, Customs inspectors All thumb.” The exception, again, is Feb. 25, when passengers might want to allowanother 30 minutes. To makethe delays more coming and outgoing flights from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Feb. 8 and Feb. 24 to protect the Opening and Closing ceremonies. Gann said the airport may pan’ in the 2002 Olympic Arts will have workers tled water and SL ks There also are quilts, paintings, photos and sculptures on display “We're doing everything we can to make this a very successful, pleasant and posi experience for our gues! Campbell said. the number ofairline passengers, Gann said. On theface ofit, that’sa lot of passengers. But the numbers are relatively small compared with the average of 1.5 million passengers that touch down or take off during a non-Olympic February. And this month, that number is not expected to change much, because fewer people will be taking business or personal trips. “Td say our business is down about 15 to 20 percent from what we would normally be doing during a slow economy,” said Brent Carter, director of operations for Christopherson Travel Group, which arranges corporate travel for the University of Utah, Regents Blue Introducing... Nv3lete —CHOICE \e Cross and Blue Shield and The Salt Lake others. Tribune, among The same mightbe said for Novell, the Provo-based computer networking company. “We haven't made any sort of policy that thou shalt notfly in or out of Utah during the Games,” said Novell spokes- man Bruce Lowry. “But obviously from a purely logistics standpoint, employees who have some flexibility in their schedule will probably fly before the Games ordefer travel until after they are over be- cause of the traffic and difficulty in getting hotel reservations.” Thebiggestcircle on thecalendar marks Feb. 25, the day after the Closing Ceremony, whenjust about everyone will tryto leave. “It’s safe to say the airport will be at capacity that day,” said Airport Director Tim Campbell, although he was quick to say that the facility and the airlines are prepared for the challenge. Christopherson’s Carter said would-be travelers already are outof luck for Feb. 25 and could have a tough time bookingflights on the next day,too. In fact, hesaid, it also is likely to be difficult finding a seat ona flight into Salt Lake International on Thursday and Friday Other than that, he said, there should be few problems flyingin oroutofthe airport. Ronald Malin, SLOC arrivals and departures general manager, may have a Maalox momentor two coping with the influx of athletes and dignitaries, but he is confident his trained army of meeters and greeters working staggered shifts at the airport’s two main terminalsis up to the job. America’s best wireless plan from America’s #1 wireless carrier Nowyoucantakeall of your minutes across ee America. With the America’s Choice plans, all your minutes are national minutes. So you cancall from anywhere on the America’s Choice network to anywherecoast to coast with no roamingor long distance charges. 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