In November, TSA Administrator, John Pistole, agreed to have an independent study of TSA’s full body scanners’ health effects on air passengers. Now Mr. Pistole is apparently backing away from his health safety testing commitment. Ned Levi discusses the health and safety issues of the scanners, and whether or not they can do the job for which they were purchased.
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Ned Levi has a list of tips to pack your bags to avoid security hand inspection loss, as suggested to him by TSA. Ned also includes a tip so you’ll know if TSA or others have opened your checked luggage when you claim your luggage at the end of your flight.
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Ned Levi discusses the new TSA software for their MMW based full body scanners which TSA Administrator John Pistole, declares has ended the scanners’ privacy issues. Whether or not it accomplishes that task, Ned discusses if that’s enough, and if we might be more safe by not using them.
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Ned Levi examines air travel safety and security this week, and looks at the question who is making air travel safer, TSA, or airplane passengers themselves. Among the questions asked are TSA’s regulations and methods making us safer or are they really “security theater.”
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Ned Levi discusses packing your carry-ons defensively to to reduce passengers’ problems at security, and the risks of breakage or lost or stolen luggage by anticipating potential carry-on woes.
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Ned Levi has surveyed the state of the commercial airline industry in light of a year of serious security and service failures. To combat those problems Ned has suggested New Year’s resolutions for the government and the airlines.
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By the end of the year, airline passengers flying in and out of Great Britain will no longer have a limit on the amount of liquid they can carry on board. The British government is citing improved X-ray technology at airports as the reason.
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TSA-approved security checkpoint bags are finally shipping. I’ve had a chance to check out two of them; the Targus Zip-Thru Corporate bag, and the Skooba Checkthrough bag. Briefly, I like the Targus bag a bit better than the Skooba bag, but neither would move me to stop using my Skooba MegaMedia Bag.
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Is the Transportation Security Administration about to loosen its restrictions on liquids and gels? A new report says so.
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