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“Your Flight Has Been Canceled”

12/29/21

Winter weather and pandemic-related staffing issues are creating a nightmare for travelers. Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed – or delayed and then canceled – over the holiday weekend and now into this week. On Tuesday, more than 1,000 flights across the country were canceled, while thousands more experienced delays. When we checked →

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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 →

Security

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 →

Security

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 finds are frightening

10/01/12

I’m just now getting around to taking a good look at the TSA Week in Review from last week Inert hand grenades, inert training detonators, knives hidden inside the lining of someone’s carry-on… it’s all getting to be so strangely familiar. The same goes for last week’s tally of loaded (25) and unloaded (4) guns. →

Airports

A look-see at TSA’s take at airport checkpoints

08/20/12

It’s bad enough that we have to sit next to strange, smelly, arm rest-hogging people on airplanes. The thought that my seatmate might have a dagger or a gun in that greasy paper bag they’ve shoved down there underneath the seat in front of them just makes it worse. Which is probably one the reasons →

Security

TSA checkpoint finds: swords, knives, guns and one chastity belt

06/09/12

The TSA’s Friday round-up of things found at airport security checkpoints is always mystifying, scary and entertaining. Among the items nabbed between June 1 to June 7, 2012 were: 22 guns (18 of them loaded), swords hidden inside a guitar case and a cane, a multi-tool knife hidden in a thermos, Co2 distraction grenades and →

TSA finds a debrainer and guns, guns, guns

03/26/12

TSA finds a debrainer and guns, guns, guns →

Airports

Guns, knives & grenades at the airport

10/01/11

Rules for traveling on airplanes with guns, knives & grenades. →

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