Tag: TSA
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With new TSA rules on laptops and cellphones, keep chargers handy
How many times have you boarded a flight with a dead cellphone or laptop? Under new TSA rules, if you do so when returning to the U.S. from abroad, you’d better keep your charger or mobile battery pack in your carry-on bag — or risk having your electronic devices confiscated. TSA sees surge in credit…
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TSA Agent Opens Grandfather’s Cremated Remains, Spills Them, Laughs at Grandson
Indianapolis’s ABC affiliate reports that John Gross was leaving Florida to return home to Indianapolis when a TSA official spilled ashes on the floor of the airport. “They opened my bag, and I told them, ‘Please, be careful. These are my grandpa’s ashes,’” Gross told RTV6. Gross said he was “told later on that she…
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Travel Tidbits – Mississippi, Disney dining, Portland and more
‘The Help’ puts tourist spotlight on Mississippi Fans of The Help, the bestselling 2009 novel and new movie about the fictional lives of black housekeepers and the white women who employ them in 1960s Mississippi, are getting some help of their own in exploring the story’s real-life settings… USA Today Disney dining gets a…
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TSA ‘pre-screening’ trial program likely to expand
Over the summer John Pistole TSA chief launched a trial ‘pre-screening’ pilot program called PreCheck with Delta and American Airlines for frequent flyers. The program allows the frequent flyers to present personal information in advance to pass through security a little more smoothly. The TSA started testing the program on Oct. 4th. According to American…
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