by Jeff Price | Aug 25, 2020 | Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening, Personal Safety
“Should or should we not, follow the advice of the galactically stupid?” Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in ‘A Few Good Men.’ Since Congress is going back anyway, let’s ask them to take a few minutes and kill the Healthy Skies Act,...
by Jeff Price | Oct 2, 2017 | Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Personal Safety
The threat to American citizens has changed significantly in the past few years and it is past the time that we adapt. When mass shootings occur, discussions on the radio focus on what happened and what could have been done, and should be done, to prevent future...
by Jeff Price | Jul 26, 2017 | Aviation Security, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening, Uncategorized
In the early days of aviation security, passengers had to have their belongings sorted through by a screener. X-ray machines were brought in so that passengers wouldn’t have to have their personal belongings dumped out for all to see, and to make the process faster...
by Jeff Price | May 12, 2017 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening, Policies and Procedures, The Role of Government
DHS may soon announce, or has already announced (depending on when you’re reading this), that the ban on personal electronic devices larger than a smartphone carried in an airline cabin will expand to the UK and throughout Europe. Previous discussions on this...
by Jeff Price | May 3, 2017 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening, Policies and Procedures, The Role of Government
(Part 5 in a 5 part series that takes a look at whether we are safer since 9/11) Much has happened since I started this short series in August 2016: We have a new President, there’s been an active shooter at another US airport and TSA has lost its Administrator and is...
by Jeff Price | Apr 6, 2017 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Existing and Emerging Threats, Passenger and Baggage Screening
Recently, the US put several foreign airlines with routes to the United States on notice that electronics such as laptops must be banned from the cabin. If this issue spreads and is not addressed immediately it will be a crushing blow to aviation, courtesy of a system...