This news ought to do little to renew your faith in airport security systems. On Tuesday, a man boarded a plane in San Diego without a ticket.
Even worse, he was just released from jail a day earlier.
Pretty much everyone knows by now that the US has a real obesity problem — even aircraft manufacturers like Airbus. In response, the company is now offering airlines the option to equip its new planes with extra-wide seats.
Buying airfare shouldn’t be as complex as trying to handicap a race horse, but the truth is sometimes it’s trickier.
Flight technology and transportation innovations may have made it easier to fly, but cutbacks throughout the airline industry have raised more health and safety concerns among consumers than a sushi-stuffed Hot Pocket.
Last week, we told you about a woman who stripped naked while at the security check to stick it to the TSA. Well, it looks like she’s started a hot new meme as 49 year old Portland resident John Brennan did the same after he claimed he was harrassed by the hands on bag checkers.
Last year, airlines in the US posted their highest profits in more than a decade — but all that money sure didn’t buy a lot of customer satisfaction.
We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency. What we do have, though, is a list of the ridiculous things they have taken from Americans who dare to forget what they’ve been carrying in their carry-ons.
