FAA says 777 must get new software, BA sets strike schedule, US travelers complain about body scanners
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Continental Airlines newest money making scheme: paid exit row seating
The next time you fly Continental Airlines and you want an exit row seat, you’ll have to pay a little extra.
On March 17th, passengers in coach can add 7 inches of legroom by purchasing an exit row seat up to 24 hours before their flight.
Prices for [...]
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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.
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Heathrow is installing them, France and The Netherlands have agreed to buy them, and Italy has pledged to have them installed within three months, but the upper levels of the European Union (EU) bureaucracy is having second thoughts about full-body scanners. The word from the top is, “Not so fast.” The EU has no European-wide policy at this point.
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Already this week the TSA was caught in a lie about what it likes to call whole body imaging (virtual strip search) machines, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents showing that, despite TSA claims that “this state-of-the-art technology cannot store, print, transmit or save the image,” the TSA actually requires all of these capabilities — image storage, printing, and transmission — as part of the contract specifications for the body scanners.
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China Eastern eyes international expansion, American would still invest in JAL after bankruptcy, do full-body scanners break child-porn laws?
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I can hear the masses beginning to beat the drum of whole-body scanners. TSA and other law enforcement groups surely must be pleased to see this yearning to be scanned spread by the uninformed knee-jerk media, liability-averse airport operators and pliant politicians. I have three words for American citizens — don’t believe them.
This technology will not save you.
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Arias Spa in Vegas, Obama’s word makes full-body scanners come, Airlines struggle with new passenger frustrations.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced last week that they have ordered another 150 whole-body scanners with stimulus money to add to their scanner arsenal that strips passengers naked. If I sound a bit negative about the idea, you are hearing me correctly. There is no need to have passengers march through security naked. The controls already in place are doing their job.
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While the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems intent on scanning everyone with whole-body scanners that strip passengers naked, officials in the U.K. have decided to limit the use of these strip-search machines by forbidding their use on children.
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