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    Two TSA Rules Most Travelers Break Without Even Realizing It

    by SharonKurheg November 14, 2025
    by SharonKurheg November 14, 2025

    The TSA was developed in the days after 9/11 to prevent another attack that was along the same lines as that tragedy. Some of the hoops we, as passengers, need …

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    Lesson Learned: Another Reason to Not Switch Seats on Your Flight Without Telling the Flight Attendant

    by SharonKurheg October 28, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 28, 2025

    In recent years, airlines have made a bigger deal about passengers not changing their seats to another one, at least without being given the OK. They frequently explain their official …

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    Airlines’ Favorite Fake Rule That We All Fall For

    by SharonKurheg October 13, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 13, 2025

    When you purchase a plane ticket on a commercial airline in the U.S., you either pay to choose your seat, have a credit card or another way to choose your …

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    LOL! TSA Just Highlighted Its Own Rule Inconsistency

    by SharonKurheg October 2, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 2, 2025

    The TSA has a boatload of rules to follow in terms of what you can bring on a plane and what you can’t. And those rules are further, shall we …

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    How to (Hopefully) Stop Getting SSSS on Your Boarding Pass

    by SharonKurheg August 1, 2025
    by SharonKurheg August 1, 2025

    There are 4 letters no one wants to see on their boarding pass: SSSS. If you use your search engine of choice (I don’t recommend Google; Google is broken) to …

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    TSA Announces Changes + Discounts for Families

    by SharonKurheg July 21, 2025
    by SharonKurheg July 21, 2025

    On the heels of the TSA announcing a program for more groups having access to faster TSA PreCheck lanes at a discounted cost (or for free), they just added yet …

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    Airlines That Still Offer Free Checked Bags (Even Without Status, Their Credit Card, etc.)

    by SharonKurheg June 6, 2025
    by SharonKurheg June 6, 2025

    With a great sigh from passengers across the U.S., Southwest Airlines recently began charging for checked bags. It marked the end of an era in the United States, since they …

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    Reminder: United’s New Check-In Policy Begins Today

    by SharonKurheg June 3, 2025
    by SharonKurheg June 3, 2025

    Sometimes an airline will make a big change. Sometimes the change is small but can potentially impact passengers in big ways. Such is the case with United’s new check-in policy. …

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    10 More Ways To Make Flight Attendants Love You

    by SharonKurheg May 22, 2025
    by SharonKurheg May 22, 2025

    A while back, we wrote a post about 10 ways to make flight attendants love you. It was mainly common sense sort of stuff…be a nice person and don’t be …

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    Why Lines at TSA (PreCheck & Regular) Might Start Getting Slower

    by SharonKurheg January 17, 2025
    by SharonKurheg January 17, 2025

    The number of US residents who travel by plane continues to increase. The numbers for 2024 aren’t out yet but for fiscal year 2023, US airports transported 1,044,764,461 passengers, which …

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