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How to tell the TSA how to do its job – and how to get it to listen

January 15, 2025May 29, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

If you’re afraid a TSA agent might bungle your screening when you fly somewhere this summer, maybe you should do what John Klapproth did when he was traveling from Seattle to Anchorage recently.

Categories Security

Is anyone really listening to your TSA complaints?

January 23, 2024May 22, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

With only a few weeks left to leave your comments about the TSA’s controversial passenger screening methods, here’s a question worth asking: Is anyone listening?

Categories Security

It’s time to tell the TSA what you really think of it — and for it to listen

January 23, 2024May 15, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Travelers love to complain about the TSA, and even though the agency assigned to protect America’s transportation systems claims to listen, most of us know better.

Categories Security

Summer road hazards your government won’t warn you about

January 23, 2024May 8, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

With the frenetic summer travel season just around the corner, here’s a little warning about a road hazard you might not expect: a checkpoint staffed by Transportation Security Administration workers.

Categories Security

Who’s afraid of the TSA?

January 15, 2025May 1, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Today’s tale of TSA inefficiency comes from the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, NY. Who’s afraid of the TSA?

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Is my 15-year-old son a terrorist?

January 23, 2024April 24, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You fly home from your family vacation, and something goes wrong at the TSA screening area.

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Random, unpredictable airport security that’s not always awful? Only in America

January 23, 2024April 17, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

The TSA screening area at Reno-Tahoe International Airport’s B gates isn’t much to look at. It’s a dark, cavernous processing area.

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The five kinds of people you meet at an airport screening area

January 23, 2024April 10, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Next time you fly, take a minute to look around at the airport screening area. You’ll see all kinds of interesting passengers.

Categories Security

Why it’s time for airport screening to come full circle

January 23, 2024April 3, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Andy deLivron says he’s no threat to aviation security. But he flies with box cutters in his checked luggage.

Categories Security
Wanna insult a reporter? There's no easier way than accusing him of being a shill for the TSA. But that's exactly what has happend.

Guess who’s shilling for the TSA

January 23, 2024March 27, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

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