"Logan Chief Seeks To Restore Public Confidence"

Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Logan Chief Seeks To Restore Public Confidence
WCVB-TV TheBostonChannel.com


The man in charge of Logan International Airport said that his first
priority is to make the flying public safe. 
  
NewsCenter 5's David Boeri spoke to Massport chief Craig Coy, who was
placed in charge of the airport after the Sept. 11 attacks. Coy said
that he was surprised to be tapped to head the airport. 

"I'd been running a business," Coy said. "I got a cold call out of the
blue asking if I'd be interested in running Massport. I didn't seek this
job." 

The chief executive officer and president of a Fortune 500 company, Coy
recently brought his experience to Massport. A businessman, former
National Security Council deputy under President Ronald Reagan and Coast
Guardsman, Coy said that his first duty is to the public. 

"My job is to restore the confidence in the flying public and of the
community," he said. 

Coy's experience with hijackings began in 1985, when he was named to an
anti-terrorism task force in the National Security Council following the
murder of a Navy diver in Lebanon after the taking of a TWA flight. 

Years later, another hijacking in Boston would open his latest job. 

"We have daily meetings seven days a week at 8:30 in the morning where
we bring everybody in that has anything that potentially has to do with
security and exchange information," Coy said. 

Before Sept. 11, the airlines were responsible for security screenings.
Coy has aggressively pushed to win federal approval for 100 percent
screening of checked baggage, making Logan the first airport to do so. 

"Half those airplanes came from Logan," Coy said. "We've got to be
first. We've got to be out in front to make sure that we respond to this
thing and do everything we can." 

Coy said that security, safety and efficiency will bring passengers back
to Logan. 

"We're conscious of what they're going through and sensitive to that and
trying to find ways to mitigate against those levels of anxiety as they
stand in line, which is unfortunately what's going to be happening here
for some period of time," Coy said.


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