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There have been some recent news reports discussing TSA forcing women through body scanners (nude-o-scopes) due to their looks. One woman claimed she was asked to submit to scanning 3 times before the TSA agent let her go.
According to CBS 11 in Dallas:
The female agent asked her to enter the machine three times in the incident several months ago. But the agent eventually lost patience with the requests coming from the other room, she told CBS ...
I had a domestic flight on Air Canada flight where I experienced simple but effective compensation in response to a delay.
I arrived at the gate just before boarding was scheduled to begin. Boarding time came and went, and finally the agent announced that we were waiting for a disabled passenger to be offloaded from the previous flight before boarding could begin. Once that passenger deplaned, the cleaners had to get on board. Then boarding began, and as Murphy's Law ...
I had many wonderful experiences on my trip to New Zealand and Australia in late 2011. I got to experience V Australia's service and really maximized the value out of a Delta Skymiles redemption.
Split apple rock, Abel-Tasman National Park
Since have a lot of blog content relating to my trip, I wanted to organize them all into one place as well as wrap up my thoughts on this great ...
Starwood has recently announced some positive changes to their program. These will take effect on March 1, 2012. Kevin noted that Hilton also has recently improved the offerings of the Hilton Honors program. Despite the economy improving and business travel increasing, I'm all for these positive changes for customers making for more competition among the hotel chains.
Pool view at ...
From the Air New Zealand Koru Club in Sydney, we boarded our V Australia flight to Los Angeles.
The 777-300ER taking us to LAX
We flew this service on the outbound from LAX to SYD in VA Business, so we were familiar with what to expect, although this time my wife and I were flying together, so it makes for a bit more pleasant experience for the long flight. This flight typical of ...
As I mentioned, we had a bit of an extended stay at the Virgin Australia lounge in Melbourne. Once we were finally ready to depart, the flight to Sydney was quite uneventful. We arrived at the domestic terminal, but despite assurances when we checked in in Melbourne, and the paperwork we were given, there were no agents there to help us with our transfer to the International terminal. We had to collect our bags, then get on the terminal shuttle bus. I was not ...
