The Consumer Travel Alliance feels that this effort is a step in the right direction for airport and airline security. Unlike the whole-body scanners that have not been fully tested, that admittedly cannot detect many explosives in powder form or when hidden in body cavities, and that subject Americans to the indignity of a virtual strip search, ETD provides an acceptable layer of security. It is focused on explosives, it has been tested extensively over years of use, and the method is non-invasive, protecting personal dignity.
JFK, already plagued by delays and tough connections between terminals is closing a runway March 1st for three months, if all goes well. Some news reports say it will be four months.
Back last August Delta Air Lines and US Airways proposed trading their slots at New York LaGuardia and Washington Reagan like baseball cards. Delta wanted more NY slots and US Airways wanted more DC gates. Both were already powerhouses at the airports where they wanted more slots.
Student detained by TSA and the FBI for learning Arabic with flash cards; Canadian security says, “Put your hand in your pants”;The annual Running of Congress
As awful as it is when a flight is canceled due to a storm, in some cases it can be even more frustrating when a flight doesn’t show canceled and it’s nearly impossible to figure if it will fly or not. While changing weather has created chaos all week, here are a few tips to [...]
The truth be told, technology has had a lot to do with the new ways that airlines can handle weather delays. Automatic telephone software, the ubiquity of cell phones. text messaging and automatic rescheduling software have changed the cancellation world of both passengers and the airlines.
The Obama Administration announced their fiscal year 2010 budget proposal today. Under the administration’s proposal for DHS appropriations, the TSA’s annual budget would increase by more than a billion dollars from 2009 to 2011, with most of that going toward the purchase of “up to 1,000″ new virtual strip-search (”Whole Body Imaging” or, in the latest euphemistic language of the budget, “Advanced Imaging Technology”) machines.
Concorde trial starts, passengers want a fat tax for the overweight, mind reading at airports
Yesterday, when flying from Washington DC to Boston, I was struck by the total change in the Washington Ronald Reagen airport stores from what I have seen for the past year. The souvenir stores seem to have changed as quickly as the Massachusetts electorate did. T-shirts, posters and coffee mugs used to proclaim a love affair with Obama. Today, that’s not the case.
Delta plans $1B fleet upgrade, Virgin America seeking a place at airports, British Airways prepares for strike
