Malaysia Airlines creates kid-free zone, Southwest Airlines is shifting some Atlanta flights back to AirTran, TSA testing an electronic document checkers
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TSA
If you’ve ever been browbeaten, barked at or belittled by a TSA agent — and let’s be honest, who among us hasn’t? — then you’ve got a friend in Sen. Harry Reid (D.-Nev.).
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The airline industry is getting “fairness” jammed down its throat from both its members and meddling politicians. On one side, Allegiant Air has decided to charge for carry-on bags and defends their decision as fairness, only paying for services passengers use. On the other, Sen. Ben Nelson has introduced a new bill that deems it “unfair” for passengers who pay extra for first class tickets to have a special line at TSA checkpoints.
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Transportation Security Officer arrested after throwing cup of hot coffee at pilot, United reservation system still has glitches, Boeing 747-8 gets FAA approval to fly to some airports
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America’s meanest airlines, USAir sees $1.5B synergy with AA merger, Nebraska Senator proposes air passenger fairness act
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Ned Levi reports that for those who enroll in Global Entry, getting through CBP passport control and customs at Global Entry equipped airports is a breeze, and as TSA rolls out its “Precheck” program nationally, Global Entry members will find it far easier, and less time consuming to proceed through TSA airport security.
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This weekend we deal with movie-set vacations and destinations (above) where travelers can stay where the stars stay and walk the walk of movies. Representative Issa reads Facebook complaints about TSA and Scott McCartney, from the Wall Street Journal, gives us tips for making travel easier.
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One of the Transportation Security Administration’s vaunted 20 layers of security has been looking a little porous lately, and the resulting dust-up is calling into question the effectiveness — and the cost-effectiveness — of post-9/11 airport screening.
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TSA’s Blogger Bob Burns has defended the use of their full body scanners at airports, after an engineer demonstrated how to defeat them, by saying the controversial scanners are merely one layer of TSA’s 20 layers of airport security. Ned Levi describes and discusses TSA’s 20 security layers.
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Thieves steal Costa Concordia’s bell beating security measures, breast-feeding passenger settles lawsuit against airlines, new law allows airports to privatize TSA screeners, riding the solid rocket boosters via video
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