Most of us have been through the drill at TSA checkpoints at the airport. Take off your shoes, your belt, put your change and keys in the basket...But it is all to make flying safer.
We all expect the holiday travel season to be busy. But does it surprise you that officials expect about 27 million people to pass through checkpoints at airports in Upstate New York this Thanksgiving?
In case you're wondering that's 4% more than last year...
TSA has no problem telling people no.
After all, they have to in order to keep us safe, but they also have no problem putting your denied items on their Instagram so the entire world can see what you just tried to bring on an airplane. Some of these might be accidents or not knowing, but some of these items, you would think, people just need common sense...
It’s hard to know what to expect when going through airport security. Sometimes you’re able to waltz right through without a second glance. Other times, you find yourself being interrogated for a suspicious used Kleenex in your purse ("Ma’am, I’m afraid you’re going to have to check these boogers"). Either way, it’s important to know what’s allowed and not allowed on a plane. For example
Being a TSA screener requiers you to be on your toes. A gun did not escape them at the Buffalo Airport yesterday afternon,. A Piedmont pilot had a loaded handgun n his bag. Maybe he forgot all about it. He had been traveling eith the gun for the last two days and no one else noticed he had the firearm...
We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency. What we do have, though, is a list of the ridiculous things they have taken from Americans who dare to forget what they’ve been carrying in thei
A breast cancer survivor says she faced "humiliation" when she was forced to have her breasts patted down during an airport screening last week.
When will common sense come back into our lives? Apparently no time soon when it comes to traveling through airports. TSA security officers at the Fort Walton Beach-Destin airport patted down at 95 year old cancer-stricken woman and forcibly removed an adult diaper during the search...
What’s happening today at airports and on airplanes? I used to fly a lot, and always thought cramming people into airplanes and treating them rudely was a recipe for disaster. Now with today’s increased security