Mar 9th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants has been leaning on Congress to amp up counter-terrorism measures in the cabin. After all, the security teams in the airports haven't exactly impressed over the past few years. So, what happens to the passengers and crew when some scumbag finds a way to tote a gun, knife or oversized bottle of shampoo on board? The flight attendants' union believes it has the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Six disastrous consequences of fighting flight attendants
Mar 9th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The Association of Flight Attendants has been leaning on Congress to amp up counter-terrorism measures in the cabin. After all, the security teams in the airports haven't exactly impressed over the past few years. So, what happens to the passengers and crew when some scumbag finds a way to tote a gun, knife or oversized bottle of shampoo on board? The flight attendants' union believes it has the ...New technology to scan shoes, (save time?) at airport
Mar 7th, 2010 at 11:00AM: If you've ever been irritated by the whole process of taking your shoes off in the airport security line, this news may give you some solace. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced that they would be purchasing new technology to scan shoes while passengers wear them. Depending on the technology, machines could use electromagnetic fields, chemical detectors or spurts of ...Chicago O'Hare and Boston Logan first airports to get full body scanners
Feb 24th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Hide the women and children, those full body scanners that have been causing all of the ruckus in the EU and Canada are on their way to the United States. Starting in early March, the technology that some claim gives a "voyeuristic" view of air travelers to the TSA will be installed in two of the nation's busiest airports: Chicago's O'Hare and Boston's Logan.
Throughout the rest of the summer ...Customs dog attacks child at airport
TSA to swab passengers' hands at airport
Feb 18th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Wash your hands before you went to the airport? You may want to. This week, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is beginning new, extra security measures at our nation's airports: hand swabs.
Have you ever had a bag "randomly" selected for supplemental screening after pushing it through the X-ray? In addition to the manual search, agents often swipe your bag with a clean cloth and ...Decoding TSA security bins
Feb 18th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Bin advertising at TSA security checkpoints has been around for a couple years. What's new is that more airports are rolling out bins that are now labeled with letters and numbers.
I first noticed the stickers in early January when flying from JFK to Seattle. I hadn't seen the labels when traveling over the holidays, so I wondered: were the stickers added after the Christmas Day underwear ...Airport security -- what works, and what does not?
Jan 28th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
With so much talk about new explosive detection equipment and the upcoming full body scanners, we decided to look into some of the current technology in place at airports around the world. What works, and what does not?
Will the future of airport security involve everyone stripping down to their underpants? Or will technology evolve to the point where computers can detect terrorists from a ...Ideas for fixing airport security
Jan 15th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Last week Slate held a contest calling for the best ideas to improve airport security. Yesterday, the site announced the winning entries as chosen by a panel of security experts. Among the winners:
In third place, Marianne Nassef suggests prohibiting those on the No-Fly list from purchasing airline tickets. "Nothing gets denied faster than a credit card," she says. Of course, this idea ...Airport security fail
Jan 12th, 2010 at 6:30PM:
We give the TSA a lot of well-deserved guff here on Gadling, but we can't blame them for the picture above, which shows a security officer at Marco Polo Airport in Venice, Italy, occupying his or her time with a bit of solitaire.
You're off the hook this time, TSA. But we still haven't forgotten about this.
[Photo courtesy of FailBlog, via the Vagabondish Twitter feed] ...Halle Berry gets police escort at airport security line
Jan 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Who knew that Halle Berry was big in Canada? Well, maybe it was her boyfriend, a Canadian model, who was able to inspire the local police to provide special treatment.
At a Montreal airport last week, Berry, her boyfriend (Gabriel Aubry) and their kid were led to the front of the security line ... while other passengers were stuck there for more than an hour. Marieve Paradis, a Quebec ...Is the body scanner hysteria getting a little out of hand?
Jan 8th, 2010 at 9:00PM: With terrorists now hiding bomb components in all corners of their bodies, we now find ourselves at a difficult impasse between more advanced, 3D scanning and passengers' privacy. Pit the ACLU and the TSA against one another and one is guaranteed a lifetime of bureaucracy, litigation and name calling, nothing of which puts the traveler's mind at ease.
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Jan 8th, 2010 at 5:30PM:
Happy Friday, faithful Gadling readers! Here are a few more travel tidbits to send you on your way to the weekend.
Finally, someone gets it right. ABC News talks about Miami Airport's efforts at "profiling passengers by actions, not ethnicity." [via ABC News]
Stuck at the airport? Check out this list of airport bars where you can "drink your delays away." [via Cheapoair]
...Video shows the cause of Newark Airport shutdown - a couple in love
Security breach sticks passengers in NJ for extra six hours
Jan 4th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Imagine the joys of spending an extra six hours in Newark, NJ. So, how pissed would you be at the one guy responsible? Now, multiply that by all the people in Newark Liberty International Airport. That's a lot of anger.
At 5:30 PM on Sunday, a passenger walked the wrong way through the exit at the security checkpoint in Terminal C. He was stopped while the authorities reviewed surveillance ...BREAKING NEWS: New security regulations updated - go into effect midnight tonight
Jan 3rd, 2010 at 5:15PM: After over a week of uncertainty, subpoenas to bloggers and false positives, the governement has settled on a comprehensive package of new security measures following the failed terror attempt on Christmas day.
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/travel_places/BREAKING_New_security_regulations_go_into_effect'; Politico.com appears to have the first mention of these new measures. As usual, the ...Body scanners wouldn't have caught Northwest bomber
Jan 3rd, 2010 at 9:00AM: Here's another hit for airline security. Not only have we discovered pat-downs aren't effective, now it turns out that full-body scanners wouldn't have detected the Christmas bomber on Northwest Flight 253. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was overpowered by passengers and flight crew after trying to detonate nearly 3oz of the chemical powder PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) hidden in his underwear ...Airport pat-downs: exercise in futility
Jan 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM: Is this really a shock? Pat-downs don't work well. Aviation experts say that government rules limit where the security folks can check, which means that would-be bombers only need to stash their illicit goods in the uncomfortable places that can't be touched. Any frequent traveler has been subject to this ritual at least once – and has probably wondered what good it does. Arms, armpits and ...TSA snags child's Christmas present: Think like TSA when packing your carry on
Dec 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Think like TSA when you pack your Christmas presents for your flight home. If you don't think like TSA, your child may end up losing a gift. It almost happened to us.
In the past, I have said goodbye to a full bottle of suntan lotion and a corkscrew with a knife attached. Those were not fun to lose, but these were items that ended up in our carry on bag as we hurried. I've known about snow ...Ryanair threaten to drop Italy
Dec 24th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Ryanair is saying it might ditch Italy ... and it's not just a publicity stunt. The low-cost airline says that new rules on which forms of identification are acceptable for boarding compromise security. The new reg, from Italy's civil aviation authority, ENAC, makes licenses for driving, fishing and hunting fine for use at the gate, along with government badges and other documents.
This isn't ...Man demands half a million Dollars for airport checkpoint foot injury
Dec 14th, 2009 at 4:30PM: The shoe carnival that is the "airport checkpoint" has long been one of my biggest annoyances. Apparently I'm not alone, because a Cooper City, FL man is taking the TSA to court over a foot injury he suffered after stepping on a piece of glass at the checkpoint.
In his case, he blames the TSA for failing to make sure the floor at the checkpoint was sufficiently cleaned. Apparently the injury ...
