The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) Answers Why
The TSA has started a campaign to answer a lot of the “Why” questions that they get from travelers and has produced a series of videos.
Here’s the idea:
It is a national effort to build awareness about checkpoint security procedures so that passengers will be better prepared for airport travel. The campaign is committed to [...]
TSA Creates Family Lanes
Just in time for Thanksgiving travel the TSA launched a program on November 20th to provide a special security lane, a “green lane”, for families traveling with children.
At the same time the TSA has relaxed the liquid restrictions for medically necessary liquids.
The lanes, part of TSA’s Diamond Self-Select program currently at 48 airports, [...]
Travel News – TSA Targets The Anxious, Ryanair Not Content to Be Hated just in Great Britain
If travel makes you nervous already then you probably should not read the following story.
TSA tests scanners to measure anxiety
Newspaper accounts are using words like “Orwellian” and “the stuff of science-fiction nightmare” to describe a new kind of technology being tested by the Homeland Security Department and Transportation Security Administration. The technology would use an [...]
Las Vegas Airport Security Video
When I was walking into the airport security in Las Vegas last weekend, this video that was playing caught my attention. It is both informative and entertaining as you learn how to pass through security in Las Vegas style. Blue Man group, magicians, clowns, celebrities and celebrity impersonators show you how it is done.
Travel News Roundup – August 17, 2008
A while back I wrote an article analyzing the finances of online travel agency YTB. My conclusion was that it was better to be YTB than someone who is building a travel agency based on them. It all smelled a bit. Apparently I am not the only one who reached that conclusion as they were [...]
Put Down The MacBook Air And Step Away Slowly
TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) reports a recent kerfuffle at airport security:
Programmer Michael Nygard is used to travel. He’s got the process down, from airport to hotel. Unfortunately, the TSA isn’t as prepared.
While passing through airport security recently, he was pulled aside and made to sit in the holding area. He watched as a [...]
Airport Security – Choose Your Line
According to a story in the USA Today you may soon get to choose which security line you use at the airport depending on how fast you will get through. Pack lighter and you can choose a faster line.
Salt Lake City International Airport is trying to get travelers through security checkpoints faster.
Travelers are being divided [...]
The TSA Blogs Back
If you have run into problems understanding some of the new airline security rules then you are not alone. Knowing this, but not wanting to have a lot of long drawn out conversations with passengers in the security line at Newark and elsewhere, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has created a new blog where they [...]








