by Charlie Leocha | Sep 4, 2010
Scientist sets off security scare, not his first, at Miami airport A TSA officer after finding a suspicious vial carried by a scientist, then used a computer to find that the man had been suspected of transporting bubonic plague years ago. TSA ordered the airport and...
by Charlie Leocha | Sep 3, 2010
Few federal agencies are coming under the withering fire that the TSA finds itself subjected to. Perhaps, they are simply incompetent as an organization, staffed by lots of smart and well-meaning people but hamstrung by their bureaucracy. Perhaps it is the total lack...
by Janice Hough | Sep 3, 2010
The TSA deadline for “Secure Flight” is two months away — November 1, 2010. In the past, some government deadlines for travelers have changed, most notably for passport rules. But airlines are already asking for the data, (full name, gender and date of...
by Charlie Leocha | Sep 2, 2010
Way back in the early 1990s when I was writing Travel Rights the DOT had a helpful pamphlet titled “Fly Rights.” Finally almost two decades later, the booklet, that has lived all this time on the Internet I am told, has been updated. Does it make sense of...
by Janice Hough | Sep 2, 2010
While airlines seem to be coming up with tighter and tighter seats in economy class, business and first class markets are still seeing many carriers striving to offer the most attractive seating options, especially on lucrative international routes. United Airlines...
by Janice Hough | Sep 1, 2010
Rental car rental prices appear to be going through the roof. Especially for short-term rentals. Ironically, while most travelers are complaining about airfare and fees, rental car prices are taking off. Here’s just a few examples, a ONE midsized rental day with...
by Charlie Leocha | Aug 31, 2010
One of the recurring themes that I hear when visiting Senators, Representatives and staff in Washington, DC, is, “Well the airlines need to make a profit, they’ve been losing money for too long.” There are plenty of legitimate retorts, however, $3.9...
by Charlie Leocha | Aug 30, 2010
The allocation of airline take-off and landing slots is something like the distribution of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, while the electromagnetic spectrum division is a universal issue, the distribution of landing slots only affects a handful of airports...
by Janice Hough | Aug 30, 2010
The flight from Kayseri, Turkey to Istanbul was only an hour, but it felt much longer to anyone seated within earshot of one particular family. The family in question had an older child — what must have been a 23 month old, because he was clearly a “lap...
