Airport Security

As if the TSA security checkpoint isn’t slow enough… #rolleyes There are all the people…SO. MANY. PEOPLE. Over 858 million in 2023 alone (and we’re averaging 10% higher than that…

Over the past year, my experiences with CLEAR and those of my wife, Sharon, have been complicated. While we’ve found our membership incredibly helpful to get into Madison Square Garden…

No one wants to spend any more time at the TSA security checkpoint than they have to. That’s why we’ve given so much advice about that very thing over the…

In the years after 9/11, and especially after an incident on Northwest Airlines flight 253 in 2009, the TSA began introducing “backscatter” screening machines made by Rapiscan. They were the…

I think we can all agree that when we bring a carry-on bag onto a plane, being limited to as many 3.4-ounce or less bottles of liquids, gels, pastes, etc.,…

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…

A man wound up going viral on social media after TSA workers pulled him aside at the airport to check his bag, only to find it stuffed with several different…

The air travel world has been living with the “3-1-1 liquids rule” (or its country-specific equivalent) for a long time now. In the United States, the TSA says you’re only…

Think about this scenario: a married couple arrives at the airport. One of them has TSA PreCheck, the other doesn’t. If they’re lucky, the one who hasn’t paid for PreCheck…

Passengers attempting to bring guns through the TSA checkpoint is a near-everyday occurrence. A grenade though? That doesn’t happen very often. But it happened in New Haven, Connecticut last week,…