In the end, there will be two reasons why TSA will go back to using private screeners: Queue management and customer service. Flying out today at my usual airport I approach the screening lines. My iPhone apps have advised me that the wait time will be about 10...
This story is getting a lot of play this week. I’ve heard that this pilot has been called everything from a hero to a whistleblower, and his attorney is equally enjoying his own celebrity. Just recently his attorney offered to make his client available to...
Napolitano calls on local police to become first preventers The threat lives among us. That was the message from Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano to a Denver audience on October 28th. Napolitano was the featured speaker, in an...
Today the airlines decided to ask TSA to move air marshals from the first class seats so they could make a few more bucks! This is absurd! This is the path to the last 9/11 so apparently some sharp folks at the airlines, you know, the same ones that charge you a fee...
There was really interesting piece recently posted on CBS4.com posing the question, are we safer than we were before 9/11 from terrorists attacks in our airports? The article examines a highly criticized practice relating to airport safety called “security theater.”...
The Associated Press recently reported on a story about 3 LAX terminals that were briefly shut down after an airport contract worker left an exit from a secure area unattended. The case of the open gate is unfortunately, but not all that uncommon. What’s...