by Jeff Price | Oct 26, 2016 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
(Part 2 in a series examining aviation security 15 years after 9/11) One of my favorite movies in recent years is Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner. Costner plays the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns football team, and the movie follows the wheeling and dealing...
by Jeff Price | May 26, 2016 | Are We Safer, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Passenger and Baggage Screening
The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 early last Thursday and the recovery of some wreckage Friday was a tragic end to a week that had begun with viral video of huge lines at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints in the United States. These two developments...
by Jeff Price | Mar 22, 2016 | Aviation Career
“The worst vice is advice,” Al Pacino in the movie, The Devil’s Advocate. For years, there was a rumor circulating around the United Airlines hiring process that pilot applicants, (if they were from out of town and staying in the designated hotel) could never be seen...
by Jeff Price | Sep 17, 2015 | Aviation Security
The challenge with aviation security in the past several years is it’s tendency to become a huge game of whack-a-mole. Every time one threat is identified, we turn all our resources to hitting that one, then another one pops up. What we need are comprehensive...
by Jeff Price | Jan 12, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
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...
