This weekend we take a look at the art of the often-taken-for-granted airline safety card, ask why AA decided to go bankrupt with billions of dollars in the bank and read about the E.U. decision to ban x-ray backscatter whole-body scanners.
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Downtown Vegas’ Golden Gate casino plans expansion, airport screeners have sticky fingers, Brits look to the US this fall for vacation travel
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This is part two of Karen’s missive on TSA security. This time we learn how to defensively dress, pack and maneuver through TSA checkpoints. It’s tough when you are considered a terrorist first and an innocent American only after being scanned and frisked.
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This is the first part of a two-part article on TSA’s airport security system. Karen Cummings first looks at her philosophical disagreements with TSA procedures and in the next article will deal with her defense against the TSA security machine.
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What happens when your $70 bottle of Remy purchased duty-free in LA is confiscated by Heathrow security during a transfer to Scotland? Though assurances were given that duty-free liquor could be transferred at Heathrow, security had a different idea.
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What the TSA seems to be saying is that 1) the scanners can capture a sharp image of your private parts, contradicting previous claims that the scans produce blurry results, and 2) that indeed, it requires a good shot of the family jewels before you can be cleared to fly. Alternatively, it needs to feel them.
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Security checkpoints of the future, airlines brace for more 787 delays, Delta resumes Aeromexico codeshare
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A TSA agent confiscated my 6 oz. jar of store-bought baby food which was unopened. They insisted on opening it to test for explosives. Now what?
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During the past few weeks, the national uproar about airport security enhanced pat-downs was especially shrill. During the leadup to Thanksgiving, the airwaves of both radio and TV were filled with chatter about these invasive TSA pat-downs. America’s airline passengers don’t like them at all. Neither do the TSA agents pressed into duty having to feel up hundreds of fellow citizens.
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On the eve of the busiest travel day of the year, faced with a traveler revolt like no other seen in the history of the U.S., dealing with congressmen who say his organization is going too far in patting down the genitals of the American public, John Pistole, Chief of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), had a press conference that answered none of the pressing questions Americans need answered.
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