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 | 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...
by Jeff Price | Mar 21, 2017 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Existing and Emerging Threats, Policies and Procedures
Early on Tuesday, March 21st, the TSA posted an emergency amendment to its carry-on policy prohibiting electronics larger than a cell phone in the cabin on flights from a number of airports. The UK announced a similar ban later the same day. This type of restriction...
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 | Aug 16, 2016 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security, Crime and Terrorism, Existing and Emerging Threats, Personal Safety
As I sit here watching a rerun of the movie Saving Private Ryan, I am reminded of the history lessons I learned growing up and all of the books about World War II that I used to read. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Nazis rolled through Europe, every...