GAO identifies new high risk ventures

. . .air traffic is expected to triple by 2025. As congestion increases, the federal government faces the challenge of providing funds to help maintain and expand the nation’s transportation system and ensuring that these funds are used efficiently. . ..

Airport Security Game

There's a public service announcement while it loads. . ..

FAA's taxing authority to expire

Holy Toledo!

Terrorist Watch List Screening

GAO Report, minimizing the adverse effects on the law abiding American Citizen.

It's a Glorified Frequent Flyer Program

So someone agrees with me.

Terrorist Ideologies, Assigning Responsiblity, Fixing Blame for the Middle East

Webcast from the Library of Congress.

Aviation Resource Manual for Quarantinable Diseases

Its Big, takes a while to load.

Frequent Flyer Statute of Limitations

Basically, 18 months inactive and they are gone.

Aged 60 Rule

Put the number 26139 in the search box to find the comments on the aged 60 rule change.

Custody Dispute ensnares CAL

She cannot take my daughter out of the country!

Air Passenger Bill of Rights

Finds a sponsor in the House.

Air Passenger Bill of Rights rallying point. (text of proposed bill)

Air Consumer Rights from the DOT.

Move Right

Age 60 Rule Announcement.

AMR stock bonus dispute

Labor Leaders HI 5ing the Execs.

Exec Comp and the LAW.

USAir/DAL hearing

ShotGun Wedding.

British Airways Strike News

Tentative Agreement Reached.


Pay, Pensions and SickDays.

Senate Hearings on Mergers in Airline Industry

Testimony, Webcast.

Security Screeners and Unionization

More on the Push.

Here's a suggestion. . .

Rent your clothes for that presentation.(because we lost your luggage)

How Airliners Spread Flu

Yet, there remains this irrational idea that cabin flight crew should not use sick days. This is what the British Air strike is about.

Pandemic

Airports, Disease and International Passengers.

Homeland Security Gov't Report-Update

Needs Work.

British Airways/Union talks collapse, planes grounded

Random Acts of Solidarity.

Domestic Surveillance & Presidential Powers

Surprise, Surprise.

Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS announcement)

Cleaning Up the NO FLY List.

Braggarts v Blowhards

Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Why do air crew call in sick?

Because if you fly with an upper respiratory infection, you can break an ear drum. . .and there are not many things that are worth a life without The Beatles.

Hotel Disease

Unregistered Guest.

New Passport Rules Today

We reserve the right to change the rules with or without notice.

Life in the Fast Lane

Sobering Essay from Bruce Schneier, security expert, via NYTimes.

Cell Phones that Fly

New Report.

Only First Class gets the pillows, lady.

Sterile Cockpit.

Michael Boyd's review of TSA

AviationPlanning.com's HOTflash column.

Trying to Quit

YOUtube Flight Attendant-Nicoderm to the rescue.

RegisteredTraveler on hold at LAX

Not So Fast.

Senate Hearing, Jan. 24th

Senate to review US Airways bid


US Airways' hostile bid for Delta Air Lines moves into the political realm this week when a U.S. Senate panel explores the potential effect of industry consolidation on fares, air service and jobs.

US Airways CEO Doug Parker and Delta CEO Gerald Grinstein will testify at Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, chaired by Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i.

Federal regulators, consumer advocates and economists are also on the witness list.

The deal would create the nation's largest domestic carrier. Delta, already the United States' third-biggest carrier, wants to remain independent.

Link to Senate Hearings.

Why airlines keep losing luggage

Depreciated Value.

New Security Control of Air Traffic

Quietly.

Federal Register Notice.

Arbitrary and Capricious

Why do I get the impression this isn't the whole story?

Toward a more accurate No Fly List

Efforts to get it right.

Racial Profiling Lawsuit

The art of avoiding being deplaned.

RegisteredTraveler Convention

Take a look at the estimated launch costs per site!

NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program

Including the NO FLY list. I hope you didn't miss Boston Legal this week. It was hilarious. Denny Crane was on the NO FLY list.

Bed Bugs at 4 star hotel

Lawsuit.

British Air Crews to Strike

Chaos in the Skies.

Code for Israel's Airspace

Don't leave home without it!

Shoe Scanner cannot differentiate between types of metal

Not solving the problem.

422 Million visitors, 87 Million by Air

Avoiding a Suprise.

Check in for your flight via cellphone

Overseas.

RegisteredTraveler news

You pay a fee,surrender your privacy and you get to cut in line.

Shot Gun Wedding

Merger of Delta and USAir will lead to higher fares, angry workers.

CourthouseNews

What's 240 Million Violations
Of Privacy Among Friends?
MARSHALL, TEXAS (CN) – Twelve corporations violated privacy law a mere 240 million times by buying a database containing more than 20 million motor vehicle records from the Texas Department of Public Safety, according to a class-action complaint in Federal Court. It’s the latest of several recent lawsuits claiming violations of the Driver Privacy Protection Act. Plaintiffs, represented by Thomas Corea of Dallas, seek punitive damages. The defendants are ACS State & Local Solutions, Centerpoint Energy International, FEDCHEX, Global 360 BGS, Gila Corp. dba Municipal Services Bureau, American Electric Power Service Corp., Houston Lighting & Power Co., the Industrial Foundation of America, TXU Business Services Co., Southwestern Bell Telephone dba Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Reliant Energy aka Reliant Resources, and the Texas Motor Transportation Association. See complaint:
http://www.courthousenews.com/TexDrive.pdf

Specified Person's List (Canada)

It's like. . .the No Fly List, but for Canada.

White House/Industry balk at inspecting cargo

No can do.

Don't SLAP an Air Marshall!

And don't threaten to kick his ass!

Must read

More on the Fake Boarding Pass Web Program. This is what they call security.

Shoe Scanner misses knives

Perk for Registered Traveler out of MCO.

slide show (Business Week) on airline mergers

AirlineMergers Slide Show.

Aged 60 Pilot Forced Retirement Rule

FAA Library (Study).

Canadian Currency imbedded with RFID chips

Brave New World.

Privacy vs Secure Flight

Congressional Research Service Report. I may have already passed this along, but on the off chance that I didn't. . .

Senate Commerce Committee Hearings Set for Jan 24th

Let's just go through the motions, shall we?

Pilot Aged 60 Rule to be Overturned

No Medical Necessity.

Scorpions! On a PLANE!

What creature is the natural enemy of the Scorpion?

YouTube Video

Oh, dear. . . .

Legal Challenge to ID Req. for Travel turned away

Your Papers, Please.

Dept of State

Western Travel Initiative, required documents.

Proposed Design Changes

I thought we already fixed this stuff, didn't you?

Toothpast threat

Tell me again about the upside of this program? It's called political pay-off. People that are in the business give money to your campaign and in return you make this program mandatory (or significantly burdensome not to participate in) and then you make MONEY, see?

Get a passport

If you plan (or don't) on going anywhere. Then back over it with your SUV.

You are trading an ability to track you for NOTHING

Tim McVeigh would have passed your background check.

Holiday Detrius

Snow Globes are NOT harmless!

Foreign Ownership of US Carriers

Some say this is a stupid rule, but I am reminded of Ned Beatty's speech to Howard Beal in "Network".

Free Trips (for Congress, not you)

Rule Change has them scattering like roaches when you turn on the light.

Profiling at the Canadian Border

Opportunity Costs.

Port Workers Must Have $159 ID

Union leaders say workers might lose their jobs.

Air Carrier Safety in Alaska

From the NIOSH.

Captive Audience

Advertising at Security Checkpoints. Just as I thought, another money making scheme. Think the tax payers will get a cut?

2 more get go ahead to process RegisteredTraveler

Two More Contenders for the Prize.

This is my passport. . . This is my hammer. . .

All passports issued by the US State Dept will have always on radio frequency ID chips in them after Jan. 1, 2007. This feature will make it easy for terrorists to ID you anywhere in the world. Although tampering with a passport is a crime punishable by up to 25 years in prison, some will find it necessary to protect their own and their family's personal safety abroad by disabling the chip. Don't put it in a microwave. It may cause a fire. A non working RFID chipped passport is still useable.