Latest Transportation Security Administration Stories
In the news release, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Offer Holiday Travel Tips, issued today by Alaska Air Group over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the sixth paragraph, second sentence, should read "The fee for unaccompanied minors (children traveling alone) is $25 one way" rather than "The fee for unaccompanied minors (children traveling alone) is $75 one way" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air...
SEATTLE, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of the busy holiday travel season, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air offer the following tips: Check in online or at a kiosk. Passengers can check in online for domestic and international flights up to 24 hours before departure at alaskaair.com or horizonair.com. International passengers also can enter passport information online. Alaska and Horizon also provide check-in kiosks at airports and many off-site locations. Alaska Airlines...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Flight Attendants - CWA (AFA-CWA) today met with John Pistole, Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to discuss concerns about the enhanced screening processes and to consider establishing alternative screening systems for flight deck and cabin crew, including implementation of systems like CrewPASS at screening checkpoints. At today's meeting members of AFA-CWA secured a commitment from...
AFGE Calls on TSA to Issue Pat-down Information to Every Passenger WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Federation of Government Employees--the union for TSA workers across the country-- has heard from its Transportation Security Officer members that while most passengers are understanding of the new TSA security procedures and recognize that TSOs are not the ones who created those procedures, there have been a few instances where passengers have become angry,...
YourTravelVoice.org to Inform Obama Administration, Congress and Travel Industry Dow Calls Air Travel "Gateway to Commerce, Job Creation" WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Travel Association today launched a new website empowering travelers to share their opinions on air travel security screening with the Obama Administration, Congress and the travel industry. The new site, YourTravelVoice.org, is in direct response to the emerging vigorous debate over the...
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), is helping passengers keep their holiday cheer as they travel during the frenzied Thanksgiving season. For the past nine years, the low-cost carrier has been offering helpful tips to customers traveling during the busiest season of the year. New for the 2010 holiday travel season is free Wi-Fi on every AirTran Airways flight thanks to a partnership with Google's innovative Web...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pro-consumer grassroots effort We Won't Fly is organizing mass x-ray scanner opt outs at airports around the nation for National Opt Out of the Airport Scanners Day, November 24, in order to highlight the health and privacy dangers of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) backscatter x-ray airport scanners. "Not only are these porno scanners a gross violation of individual privacy," said boycott co-founder George Donnelly,...
The US government's efforts to strengthen airport security came under fire by scientists Friday, warning that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are used in airports to screen airline passengers and crews could be hazardous to their health. "They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," Dr Michael Love, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told AFP. "No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial. We know...
TSA 'enhanced pat-downs' described as invasive, humiliating WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today issued a travel advisory for airline passengers who may be subjected to new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) "enhanced pat-downs" that many of those who undergo the procedure describe as invasive and humiliating. The advisory comes after two of the nation's largest pilots' unions urged commercial pilots to avoid...
CHANTILLY, Va., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded TASC, Inc. the first task order under its $350 million Test and Evaluation Support Services (TESS) program. Under the contract, TASC will be responsible for testing and evaluating TSA equipment and operations at many locations across the United States. This first TESS contract is valued at nearly $4.1 million for a six-month period of performance. (Logo:...
