How will TSA react this time?

Last week, at Moscow’s busiest airport, Domodedovo, a suicide bomber killed 35, and wounded over 100 more in the airport’s arrivals hall, a far easier target to enter than the heavily secured departures area. When we examine how security is deployed at US...

A natural gem in the midst of historic Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States, and its first capital. It’s where the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the US Constitution were written and signed. Philadelphia is where the country was named, the United States...

Futuristic airliner ideas for 2025 funded by NASA

Artist’s concept of aircraft that could enter service in 2025 from the team led by Boeing. (NASA/Boeing) NASA recently awarded airplane manufacturers multi-million dollar grants to study the airplane of the future. Leaving the argument about whether this is the...

Do ancillary fees open airlines to small claims courts?

For decades, airline passengers have been effectively excluded from dealing with airline service problems through the court system. Due to federal preemption, the small claims and state courts are closed for any redress. And the federal courts have held that anything...

Who makes air travel safer, TSA or passengers?

In order to permit you to board a plane, TSA prods, pokes, scans, wipes, and “pats.” TSA says it makes you safe. Does it? In my opinion, not really. This past week, Cuma Yasar, claiming to have a bomb, tried, but couldn’t get past the cockpit door of a Turkish...