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Airport Security Pat Downs: Too Much for Too Little
10:00AM 11/22/2010
While the TSA argues that more aggressive security is necessary to find weapons or bombs under clothes and stop terrorists, travelers say they feel like they're the ones being terrorized. Worse, the procedures fail to achieve the stated aim of creating safer skies.
The skies aren't so friendly for some pets
4:00PM 6/29/2010
Little Neytiri caused a big uproar recently on an AirTran Airways flight from Atlanta to Milwaukee when his 10-year-old owner took him out of his cage and cuddled him on the taxiway.
After spying Carley Helm holding her two-inch turtle, the crew ordered the plane to return to the gate, where Helm...
Are paper boarding passes a thing of the past?
10:00AM 4/08/2010
It's always a challenge to keep track of paper boarding passes while negotiating endless security lines and juggling awkward carry-on luggage. And there's always the guessing game about whether the TSA agent will want to check it after you walk through the magnetometer.
Travelers can avoid this...
Air travel gets you where you want to go, but with airlines charging more for checked baggage, ever-changing restrictions on number of carry-ons and new regulations that may keep some travelers in their seats for an additional hour of flight, air travel has definitely become more burdensome. But,...
Heightened Airport Security Is Lifting Many Companies
4:00PM 12/29/2009
The attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas quickly led to new travel restrictions and tougher security. Airline stocks dropped on the news, but shares of companies that make airport security devices rallied smartly
Starting Saturday, the TSA wants to know your birthday
8:00AM 8/13/2009
In most areas of our lives, we're doing everything we can to reduce identity theft by reducing the amount of personal information released to businesses when we buy things from them. But in one area, a new law wil force us to divulge more: On Saturday, Aug. 15, the Transportation Security...
Remember the days when you could actually take a bottle of water through airport security? Your hand lotion, hairspray, and mouthwash were okay too, even if you had the big bottle. All that changed in 2006, when a scare related to liquid explosives caused airports around the world to restrict...
Homeland Security says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are bad at their jobs, and I believe them! They say the nation's 48,000 airport screeners have extremely high injury and turnover rates.The reason they're so bad at their jobs? They're frustrated! Awwwwww..... The...
I'm all for the government cracking down on collecting child support payments, and taking the money directly out of IRS payment seems like a winning plan. But the $2 billion that the government has collected so far isn't all from deadbeat dads. I, for instance, am part of the 39% of those who had...
Score another one for the Transportation Security Administration... It's making it even more inconvenient for travelers. Lucky passengers in 10 major United States airports can have the pleasure of the TSA seeing them naked. No, I'm not kidding. Travelers in cities like Los Angeles and New York...
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