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Travel Tidbits from Airports Near You

06/04/24
Here’s a quick roundup of fun posts and new amenities recently spotted at airports. New York’s Albany International Airport (ALB) is getting ready for all the travelers who will be arriving for the Belmont Stakes horse race in Saratoga on June 8. They’ve set up a selfie station with a horse statue just past the →

Self-service security screening? It’s being tested

03/06/24
Self-service checkout works at the grocery store. So why not self-service screening at the airport? That’s what the Transportation Security Administration has in mind. For the next six months, TSA and the Department of Homeland Security will be testing a self-service checkpoint at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas. Starting in mid-March, travelers →

TSA’s firearm tally hits a new record

01/10/24
(‘No Guns on Planes’ photo courtesy TSA) Pop quiz: Can you take your gun on a plane in your carry-on bag? The answer is no. But the message isn’t getting through. No matter how many times and in how many ways the Transportation Security Administration crew tries to remind travelers of that fact. In 2023, →

Traveling for Thanksgiving?

11/13/23
Are you traveling over this Thanksgiving holiday? You won’t be alone. Not by a long shot. AAA projects 55.4 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home over the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. That’s an increase of 2.3% over last year and marks the third-highest Thanksgiving forecast since AAA began tracking holiday travel →

News to use: travel safely during the Mideast crisis

10/25/23
(This is a story we first reported for NBC News) Last Thursday the State Department advised travelers from the U.S. to “exercise increased caution” worldwide because of the Israel-Hamas war, citing “the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests.” The warning “means what it says,” said Jeffrey Price, an aviation security expert →

TSA finding more guns than ever

10/02/23
GUNS AT AIPORTS. Sadly, that’s a thing. Looks like the Transporation Security Administration (TSA) is on its way to breaking yet another record. And it’s not for the number of passengers screened at U.S. airports. Although those numbers are up. This record is likely to be for the number of firearms found at airport security →

Did you mean to tip the TSA?

09/18/23
At airports, it’s not unusual to hear an announcement asking a traveler to return to the security checkpoint to retrieve a left-behind item. On Sunday, for example, while waiting for an early morning flight, we heard repeated announcements asking the person who left their wedding band behind at the checkpoint to come and get it. →

TSA’s Cutest Canine + Airport Open Spaces

08/28/23
  Dina wins TSA’s 2023 Cutest Canine Contest The votes are in. And Dina, a three-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer (GSP) explosives detection canine at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), is the winner of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) 2023 Cutest Canine Contest. The contestants came from a field of 92 dogs nominated by TSA handlers →
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