Security analyst Bruce Schneider, a fierce critic of the TSA, brings us another example of the agency's (in)competence:
TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags.Screener determines that they're not a threat.Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their "material and appearance."Because they're not actually a threat, screener leaves them at the checkpoint.Everyone forgets about them.Six hours later, the next shift of TSA screeners notices the pipes and -- not ...Barcelona-based Spanair, a Star Alliance Member, has ceased operations effective 27 January 2011. The struggling carrier has fought to stay afloat recently, but after a recent round of talks with Qatar Airways failed to produce an investment agreement, the Spanish government announced this afternoon that the carrier wold be halting operations immediately. With no infusion of cash from Qatar, the Catalonian government determined they could no longer afford to prop up the carrier, blaming the ...
A refreshing change has hit U.S. airline websites this morning: the return of all-in pricing. Under a new directive by the Department of Transportation, airlines must now display all-in pricing initially and at all junctures of your flight search--not just on the final purchase page.
Most airlines have passively submitted, but low-cost Spirit Airlines came out ...
I want to be careful not to blow this story out of proportion, but there is a key point we can take away from today's incident at Nashville Airport in which Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was temporarily detained by the TSA for refusing to undergo a patdown after walking through a full body scanner: he got away with it.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, take a look at the video below:
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If the Transportation Security Administration was a Shakespeare play, it would be A Comedy of Errors. In an apparent case of mistaken identity and astounding sloppiness, an x-ray scanner picked up a .38-caliber revolver in a passenger's carry-on baggage at Dallas/Fort-Worth International Airport, but the TSA let the passenger walk away with the gun and even board her AA flight to Houston!
You can read the story here. Here's what happened: the TSO watching the metal detector screen was ...
Lap it up as small victory in the "war of influence" (a war over whether Continental or United will emerge as the true post-meger airline), but United confirmed today it will keep "Rhapsody in Blue" as its signature theme song...sort of.
"We're going to keep that around, but whether it will be part of ad campaigns, we haven’t decided," said United Holdings spokesman Rahsaan Johnson. "We still have the rights to use it, so we will."
United Airlines purchased the ...
