TSA

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With COVID numbers dropping, more and more people are traveling. Many airports are reporting record numbers of passengers. Of course, with several countries removing COVID-related obstacles such as vaccinations, testing, …

Say you’re flying today, and arrive at the TSA checkpoint at the airport. Boarding pass? Check. Identification? Check. COVID vaccine card? Check. The only thing is, you don’t need your …

Going through the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) checkpoints in the U.S., especially if you don’t have Pre-Check or Global Entry (and really, if you live in the U.S. and don’t …

TSA agents get a lot of flack, and sometimes deservedly so. They can be rude and irritating, and besides being a thankless job, I’m sure all of this may be …

It’s been a big week for people who want to skip the queues at the TSA security checkpoints! We wrote the other day that 6 airports across the country, one …

Even if you don’t have a degree in reading boarding passes, you can usually figure out what most of the stuff is: Your name, the date, your flight info, if …

When you go through the TSA security checkpoint, you know the drill – do this, do that, and don’t forget to remove everything from your pockets and put them into …

In 2015, a Chinese woman, named only as Zhao, was told she couldn’t bring her unopened 700ml bottle of Rémy Martin XO Excellence cognac onto the plane she was about …

I was wondering when this would eventually happen. 😉 Back at the beginning of the summer, two airports began test piloting virtual queues for their respective TSA checkpoints. Passengers were …