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TSA & airlines pre-notify travelers about PreCheck eligibility

04/29/13

What good is privilege if you don’t know you have it or don’t know how to use it? Passengers eligible for TSA’s PreCheck program offering expedited security screening at 40 airports are sometimes unaware of their status and unsure of which checkpoint line to join. So Delta, United and US Airways are now alerting qualified →

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TSA will delay allowing knives & more back on planes

04/22/13

Thursday, April 25, was the TSA’s target date for allowing knives and some sports equipment, such as hockey sticks, back on airplanes as carry-on items. But today the TSA announced that it will hold off on that decision for an undetermined amount of time. Here’s their statement: “In order to accommodate further input from the →

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TSA eases rules for wounded warriors at airport checkpoints

03/27/13

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has expanded the services it offers to wounded military service members at airport security checkpoints nationwide. Starting Wednesday, March 27, 2013 injured troops and veterans will no longer be required to remove their shoes, jackets or hats at airport security checkpoints as long as they call ahead to arrange for →

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Flight attendants ask passengers to fight new TSA rules

03/20/13

If you’re traveling through Los Angeles International, Washington National, or Norfolk International airports on Thursday, March 21, you may see groups of flight attendants handing out leaflets. Members of the Coalition of Flight Attendants Unions and others are asking passengers to join them in calling on members of Congress to support legislation to overturn →

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TSA sticking to its guns about knives

03/14/13

On Thursday, Transportation Security Administration Chief John Pistole went before lawmakers on Thursday and re-confirmed the agency’s decision to allow some knives and other items on airplanes for the first time since they were banned following the 9/11 terror attacks. “I think the decision is solid and it stands and we plan to move →

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Wrinkles in TSA’s rules on knives and sports equipment

03/09/13

What could go wrong with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) plan to allow small knives and some sports equipment back on airplanes for the first time since 9/11? A lot. Carry-on Confusion TSA has decided small knives less than 2.36 inches long and no wider than half an inch as well as sports equipment such →

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More on TSA’s move to allow small knives, sports sticks on airplanes

03/06/13

Not everyone is happy about the TSA’s decision to take small knives and sports equipment – including golf clubs (2 per person), pool cues, lacrosse sticks, hockey sticks, ski poles – and small novelty/souvenir bats off the list of items that passengers are prohibited to take on planes as part of their allowable carry-on items. →

TSA: OK to fly with small knives, golf clubs, other items.

03/05/13

For the first time since the 9/11 terror attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will allow small knives and some previously prohibited sports equipment onto airplanes as carry-on items. According to the TSA, passengers will be able to carry-on knives that are less than 2.36 inches long and less than one-half inch wide. Larger knives, →

TSA keeps $531,000 left behind by travelers

02/15/13

Frazzled and forgetful passengers left more than a half million dollars in spare change in the plastic bowls and bins at airport security checkpoints last year. That’s about $45,000 more than the amount left behind in 2011, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). What happens to all that money? TSA makes “every effort to →

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Denver Int’l Airport collects spare change for homeless

02/05/13

Many travelers dump the loose change in their pockets into the security bins at airport security checkpoints and often leave some of that change behind when gathering up their belongings on the other side. In fact, according to the TSA, during 2012 approximately $531,000 in “undeclared money” was left at security checkpoints at the country’s →

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