REAL ID

A new TSA fee took effect February 1, but recruits headed to basic training won’t have to pay — and will even get expedited screening. After nearly two decades of …

Depending on the airport, time of day, time of year, and, of course, whether or not you have TSA PreCheck, your visit to the TSA security checkpoint can be as …

As the TSA adds more and more Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) units to the country’s airports, it means fewer and fewer people have to show their boarding passes to TSA …

Typically, technology is awesome. It’s faster than doing things manually. More efficient. Cheaper in the long run. All that good stuff. But then there’s a glitch that not only grinds …

You know what documents you need to get on an airplane. For most people in the U.S., you show your driver’s license to the TSA agent at the checkpoint. If …

Driver’s licenses are the de facto identity document for many U.S. citizens, and with good reason. They can be used for everything from entering bars to proving one’s identity to …

I know there are a lot of people out there who think the TSA is a total waste of time, is security theater, etc. I suppose everyone has their own …

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 …

A couple of months ago, we wrote a piece about how some driver’s licenses weren’t being approved at the TSA security checkpoint. It was thought to be a glitch in …

You get to the airport for your cross country trip and have done everything you can to prepare to go through X-ray as quickly and easily as possible. You’re all …