This weekend, we look at how iPad helped a Canadian cross the US border, US airlines passing new European environmental fees along to passengers and the shift in airline outsourcing to offshore maintenance facilities.
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US Customs and Border Protection
As a country the United States is sometimes hard to understand. On one hand, we claim to want to have foreign tourists visit us for both the interpersonal interactions and for the positive balance of trade that tourism produces. On the other hand, we treat incoming airline passengers like criminals and charge everyone who wants to visit.
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Global Entry is a preferred traveler program for people considered low risk by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Members of the program are granted “expedited entry” into the US (government speak for you get to skip all of the lines) in exchange for submitting to a background investigation and interview.
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After a bogus, apparently airline-financed study claimed that the new tarmac-delay rules were causing airlines to cancel an extraordinary number of flights, a dispassionate study of delays shows that cancellations showed a small gain, mostly due to weather and the volcanic ash problems.
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While driving around San Francisco, a security researcher with a scanner captured and cloned Passport Card RFIDs. Security experts have stated the Cards are easily counterfeited. Ned Levi ponders whether any citizen should obtain a Passport Card.
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