Travel Sentry is a company that develops and licenses standards used in travel security, including a standard for luggage locks that can be opened by aviation security agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration.
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Travel Sentry was founded in 2003. The first locks manufactured to the Travel Sentry Approved standards went on sale on November 12, 2003. Initially, only key and combination padlocks were manufactured using this standard. In 2004, the first luggage with integrated Travel Sentry locks were introduced.
As of 2014 there are over 300 million Travel Sentry locks and luggage in circulation.
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Luggage locks
Travel Sentry developed a lock system that is "accepted and recognized" by the TSA and other security agencies, and allows them, using special tools and codes, to open and re-lock locks. The tools provided by Travel Sentry are at every luggage screening checkpoint at all 450 airports controlled by the TSA.
The Travel Sentry system is used by security agencies in Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA.
The system is licensed by over 500 companies worldwide: primarily luggage brands, lock manufacturers and distributors of travel goods.
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