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  • Airports

    Why TSA at ATL Runs a Little More Smoothly Than at Other Airports

    by SharonKurheg October 30, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 30, 2025

    If you go to the TSA security checkpoint at any airport in the United States – particularly the larger ones – you know it’s just a bunch of ongoing organized …

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    22 Airports Now Allow Unticketed People Through TSA Security

    by SharonKurheg October 29, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 29, 2025

    Back in the day — when air travel was a lot simpler — TSA checkpoints didn’t even exist. You’d check in, hand off your luggage, walk through a metal detector, …

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  • Travel

    Passports, PreCheck, and Global Entry in the Shutdown: Who Wins, Who Loses

    by SharonKurheg October 27, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 27, 2025

    As I’m sure you know, the government shutdown is still on. This is its 27th day, making it the second-longest in our country’s history (the longest one lasted 35 days, …

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    Turns Out, Bringing a Gun Into an Airport Is Totally Fine (in Most States)

    by SharonKurheg October 27, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 27, 2025

    You probably read early last week about the Georgia man who brought a rifle into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and was arrested after police were alerted, via a tip from …

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  • Tips and Tricks

    How to Beat the TSA 3-1-1 Rule (Without Breaking It)

    by SharonKurheg October 26, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 26, 2025

    Ever since the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been enforcing what is known as “3-1-1 for carry-ons,” wherein travelers are allowed to carry liquids through …

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  • Airports

    The Hidden Reason TSA PreCheck Lines Are So Long Lately

    by SharonKurheg October 24, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 24, 2025

    TSA PreCheck lines have been getting longer — and it’s not just because more travelers are applying. Here’s why wait times are increasing and what’s still happening behind the scenes.

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  • Hotels

    Hotel Review: Westin Detroit Metropolitan Airport

    by joeheg October 16, 2025
    by joeheg October 16, 2025

    I booked a room at The Westin Detroit Metropolitan Airport for my wife, Sharon, as an overnight stay during her 25 for 25 JetBlue trips. She was arriving late—around 9:00 p.m.—and …

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  • Airports

    7 Activities That Could Earn You a Secondary TSA Security Screening

    by SharonKurheg October 11, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 11, 2025

    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 …

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  • Airports

    Turns Out TSA Rudeness Correlates With One Simple Metric

    by SharonKurheg October 9, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 9, 2025

    There are few people who have truly nice things to say about the TSA. Of course, you’ve got the extremists who say TSA is security theater, TSA officers get their …

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    What TSA Workers See On Airport Body Scanners Nowadays

    by SharonKurheg October 5, 2025
    by SharonKurheg October 5, 2025

    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 …

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