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Guns at airports

01/17/13
(Guns at the Airport: TSA Catching Firearms at Record Pace is my first story for AOL Travel. An excerpt from the story is below. More to come. ) Firearms top the list of items passengers are prohibited from taking past airport security checkpoints and onto airplanes. Yet, during 2012 that didn’t stop travelers from trying […]

FCC eases up on in-flight Internet & TSA finds more guns

12/29/12
Some end-of-the-year tidbits for air travelers: On Friday, December 28, 2013, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued some new rules designed to “speed the deployment of  Internet services onboard aircraft.” In its release, the FAA explained that, since 2001, it has been authorizing companies to offer in-flight broadband service on an ad hoc basis. […]

Reviewing TSA’s weekly gotcha’ list

07/16/12
On most Fridays, TSA’s blogger Bob Burns posts a tally of the number of guns (loaded and unloaded) caught during the prior week at US airport security checkpoints and gives a review of the forbidden, and often truly far-out, items TSA officers find. Last week was no different. According to the TSA blog, last week […]

TSA week in review: the pistol-in-the-potted plant

07/02/12
I am always entertained and a bit frightened by the TSA’s weekly round-up of items found at airport checkpoints. I know it’s a bit of a PR effort on the TSA’s part to show off all the wacky ways – and all the bizarre stuff – people put in their carry-on bags, but it works […]

Planning a vacation? Start by unpacking.

08/14/08
Shifting rules and over-zealous staffers can trip up even the most checkpoint-savvy traveler. (Flip-flops on or off? Is mascara a liquid or a gel?) But it may not be the TSA you have to worry about; watch out for other travelers. So far in 2008, the TSA has discovered 519 guns – many of them […]
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