TSA Secure Flight: Southwest Airlines Ask for Personal Info

Southwest Airlines is introducing Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Secure Flight program. Southwest frequent flyers are asked to provide full name (matching government-issued photo ID), date of birth, gender, and TSA-issued Redress Number if applicable. The...

CNN Ridicules Airline Passenger For Standing Up For His Rights

Is the mainstream media so out of touch that anyone defending their legal rights is now open to ridicule?Recently a Ron Paul supporter dared to politely ask airport TSA officials if he was required by law to...

Ron Paul Official Detained at St. Louis Airport

Today, I came across news of a disturbing incident that took place March 29. It involved Steve Bierfeldt, director of development for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty organization, and Transportation Security...

2D Barcode Boarding Symbology Tested By The TSA :: Symblogogy

" One's next set of secure ID documents … discarded! Image Credit: upgradetravelbetter.com2D Barcode Boarding Symbology Tested By The TSAAn automatic identification barcode symbology...

Fliers Complain About X-Rated Security Screenings: TSA Agents Forced Woman To...

"For arguing with a TSA agent, Robin Kassner wound up being slammed to the floor. She's filed a lawsuit. "I kept begging them over and over again get off of me ... and they wouldn't stop," Kassner said. And it...

Too Many Gadgets can make your Vacation a Disaster

Our electronic age has made many of us so dependent on gadgets that we may have withdraw symptoms if we don't take the laptop, cellphone, Blackberry, MP3 Player, GPS among other things when we travel.  One...

Next Time you fly... you may as well fly... naked!

10 major US airports are installing body scanners machines. Those machines can see through your clothes, revealing your body and whatever is hidden under your clothes, as can be seen from the photo." BALTIMORE —...

Woman forced to remove nipple piercings at airport

So is that where spies keep their microchips now? I used to work at the border...I must have missed that memo."LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by...

TSA launches search for the perfect laptop bag

The TSA in the US come up with the design of a laptop bag, to avoid the routine of taking computers out of a bag and placing it in a tray:" The Transportation Security Administration is interested in evaluating -- and eventually approving –- the design of certain laptop...

Bush Wants Personal Info on European Tourists

Whether or not Washington admits it, the US economy is hurting. Scaring away tourists? Not helping. What would Americans say if, for example, Britain demanded info on would-be tourists from Iowa? A buck says...

Airline Seat Upgrades are Easier to Get; EU Carbon Trading for Airlines; and ...

Travelography World Travel News #89 podcast (.MP3 Download) Airlines in the US are offering more opportunities for upgrading to business and first class. Europe wants all airlines flying to and in the EU to participate in a carbon trading program. Now the US wants...

Security breach delays Charlotte/Douglas flights

"The Transportation Security Administration has delayed at least 15 outbound flights this morning at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport while they search for a man who got past a concourse...

Sippy-Cup Saga Hits CNN

Here at NowPublic Global HQ, we were pleased to see the work of Bill Adler make it to CNN's Situation Room. Regardless of whose side one takes in the TSA/sippy-cup story, it's quite telling to see a site like...

A Stream of Hate Mail -- the TSA Story Revisited

As a writer I'm accustomed to receiving letters and emails about my books. Some are good, some less so. But these letters pale in comparison to the rants, missives and simply hateful things that people have sent to me. I can only imagine what Monica Emmerson's inbox looks...

Analysis: Video of The Sippy Cup Incident

Our friends at Boing Boing have posted another article about what is now known as the Sippy Cup Incident. In this piece Mark Frauenfelder analyzes the TSA video.He starts with a simple summary: "The videos have no sound. The first video shows a woman pushing a stroller while...

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