What comes around goes around and sooner than later a passenger was going to turn the tables and grope a TSA agent. Not that groping is ever funny, and now, 61-year-old Yukari Miyamae from Colorado, is facing felony charges.
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Despite the government’s insistence that American air travelers broadly support its new airport security measures — which include either a full-body scan or a so-called “enhanced” pat-down — a weekend poll by the Consumer Travel Alliance finds public sentiment has turned against the policy.
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Here are some tips as to how to travel long distances and not arrive at your destination feeling like a dish rag. Please add your suggestions and know they’ll be appreciated by long-distance travelers. For that matter, people who are flying from one coast to the U.S. to the other will find any and all tips useful. How many changes can you make in the not-so-friendly skies?
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Are full body scanners the answer when it come to averting potential terrorist attacks when going through airport security?
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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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We have all faced the indignities of passing through TSA security screening. We know the routine — shoes off, belts off, coats off, sweaters off, cell phones out of pockets, computers out of bags, change tossed into a bin. Here’s a bewildered traveler faced with a devious security screener that will bring a smile to your face.
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Continental Airlines is testing a check-in system that allows passengers to display an encrypted bar code on the screen of their handheld mobile device — instead of a paper boarding pass — as they pass through security.
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What does a country owe you when its customs agents give you the once-over at the border, even though you’re completely innocent of any criminal activity? Should it refund your vacation? Christopher Elliott tells us.
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The Transportation Security Administration, roundly mocked (fairly or unfairly) for its security procedures, may be on to a good one this time. As part of an experiment at select airports, the TSA has designated checkpoint lanes for families.
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