Airport Security

For years now, TSA has been aggressively nudging travelers toward PreCheck. And sure — skipping liquids removal and laptop juggling is great. But as more and more people signed up, …

After a record-breaking 43 days, the government shutdown finally ended. But while it was still going on, passengers continually asked TSA workers, both online and in person, what they could …

Not long ago there were reports that since 2024, there has been an influx of travelers who had had their Global Entry revoked. From visaverge.com: According to internal tallies shared …

As I mentioned in another post, I like to think of myself as something of a “model passenger.” I’m not saying that as a way to show off. It’s just …

If you’re traveling by plane in the United States, you know that sometimes you’ll get pulled aside for a “swab test.” It happened to me on our way home from …

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 …

We’re up to day 37 of the government shutdown. As of yesterday, it’s the longest shutdown in history. Yee-freakin-ha. Because I fly quite a bit, and that’s only increased since …

It was a simple tweet that got over 1,000 replies, 1.4K retweets, 61k “hearts” and over 5.5 MILLION views: The vast, VAST majority of those responses were to tell the …

If you go to the TSA security checkpoint at any airport in the United States – particularly the larger ones – you know it’s just a bunch of ongoing organized …

Back in the day — when air travel was a lot simpler — TSA checkpoints didn’t even exist. You’d check in, hand off your luggage, walk through a metal detector, …