TSA security

For as long as most of us have been flying, one part of the airport experience has felt unavoidable: The TSA line. Sure, some airports are faster than others. Some …

Historically, during the halcyon days before 9/11, it was easy to get to the airside of an airport. You’d just check in, go through the metal detector, and go to …

When you go through the TSA security checkpoint, the goal is to get through it as quickly as possible. That typically means making sure your pockets are empty, you’ve removed …

Ever since commercial airports began introducing visitor pass programs in the mid- to late 2010s, there’s been some give and take. Pittsburgh International Airport was the first airport in the …

There was a time when air travel was much simpler. TSA checkpoints didn’t exist, and the routine was easy: check in, drop off your bags, walk through a metal detector, …

Conspiracy theorists are going to conspiracy theorize. Just ask Denver International Airport (I love how they’ve embraced being the topic of so many conspiracy theories). But the mother of all …

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 …

Way back when, during the halcyon days before 9/11, it was easy to get to the airside of an airport. We’d just check in, go through a metal detector, and …

If you have TSA PreCheck (and apparently, 20 million of us do now), you know how wonderful it is. (Except for this lady. Her reasoning for not wanting it is …

It’s been reported that the electronic scanners at airports’ TSA security checkpoints are having difficult with select driver’s licenses of, now, a third state. This time it’s not the TSA’s …