American Airlines’ list of unbundled “services”

This is a list of fees charged by American Airlines for various “services.” It was included in a letter from the IRS clarifying what fees for services would be subject to the 7.5 percent Transportation Excise Tax. Which fees are subject to the...

TSA budget: 1,000 more strip-search machines

The Obama Administration announced their fiscal year 2010 budget proposal today. Under the administration’s proposal for DHS appropriations, the TSA’s annual budget would increase by more than a billion dollars from 2009 to 2011, with most of that going toward the...