For years, AFA-CWA has been urging TSA to devote serious resources to the appropriate development and full implementation of an aviation workers' identification credential that will promote expedited screening of those who most frequently must pass through airport security. This credential could employ biometrics, such as fingerprints, to quickly screen flight attendants and others. This would ultimately allow TSA to focus on more effective screening of the hundreds of airport vendors and thousands of aircraft passengers who daily pass through the screening checkpoints. 

Back in July 2008, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched "crewPASS", a test program designed to evaluate expedited access to secure areas of airports for properly credentialed commercial flight deck crew members. The program was a mandate of the 9/11 bill. The program was instituted at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Pittsburgh International Airport and Columbia (S.C.) Metropolitan Airport. 

Eligible flight deck crew members enter a secured area, presenting their airline-issued identification and another form of ID to transportation security officers (TSOs). The TSOs check the credentials via a secure, real-time flight deck crew member database that included a picture and other information to verify the individual's identity. Flight deck crew members were also subject to random screening, observation by behavior detection officers and other layers of security.  This test was conducted in cooperation with the Air Line Pilots Association, limited to flight deck crew members in uniform, and it was for a total of 60 days. At the end of the trial period it was determined that the program was a success.