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The TSA Has Revised The Knives On Planes Policy And The Flight Attendants Are Not Happy

Mark Richards — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:28:07 +0000

My dear friend Linda is a flight attendant and yesterday she posted on her facebook page a lengthy opposition to the TSA policy now allowing passengers to carry small knives onto planes. The vice president of the flight attendants union agrees with her and she has said that the new policy is “outrageous.” According to [...]

Good News — TSA Screeners Can't See You Naked Anymore

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:07:20 +0000

The controversial full-body scanners that the Transportation Security Administration has been using in airports to detect illegal objects being hidden by passengers will be removed from all airports. After travelers complained (quite loudly), TSA set a deadline for the scanners’ maker, OSI Systems, to create software that would make the images of passengers less revealing. [...]

Airline Passengers Live Their Worst Nightmare, Thanks to a Single TSA Agent

Shauna Wright — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:01:23 +0000

Hundreds of travelers at New York’s JFK Airport who’d already gone through security screenings were forced to do the unthinkable — get in line and do it all over again. It happened Saturday when it was discovered that one of the TSA agents didn’t know his metal detector had been unplugged all morning.

Family Removed from JetBlue Flight After Toddler's Name Winds Up on No-Fly List [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:13:22 +0000

It’s an innocent traveler’s worst nightmare: being yanked off a plane because your name has somehow wound up on a watch list through no fault of your own. But what if it was your toddler who was deemed a flight risk?