US airports will have storage lockers again
 

Minneapolis-St-Paul airport is the first one to use the new system, and all the other major airports will have lockers within 60 days. The difference between the new ones and the old ones is, that you will have to give your fingerprint when renting and opening the locker. So you can't send your wife :-) to retrieve the luggage if you were the one to put it in there. The charges are the same as they were before 9/11 $2 per hour or $6 per day.

Pardon my ignorance, but how would fingerprinting stop a terrorist from planting a bomb in his/her luggage that is being check?

This is great news! Obviously it can't stop a terrorist anymore than a drivers license at the security checkpoint can. But when was the last time in the US that someone bombed a locker? JFK in 73? Many airports took lockers out of service then, and never brought them back. It does give a terrorist pause if s/he wishes not to be caught.<BR><BR>I've often used lockers for temporary storage of some or all of my luggage when traveling and welcome the return of lockers.

All the lockers are past security, so if there are any bombs left I would assume the terrorists would prefer to use them on a plane. I don't think shutdown of lockers was due to threat of bombs and such, it was more of a passing point between drug dealers, money launderers, etc.. From now on the person that rented the locker will have to be there to open it.

Thanks for saving my sanity!