TSA security

If you don’t fly very often, going through TSA can feel overwhelming. There are signs everywhere, bins flying around, people taking off jackets, emptying pockets, removing laptops, and somehow everyone …

Two weeks ago, Boston became the first airport in the United States to let some travelers clear TSA security before they even arrived at the airport. The pilot program, which …

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 …