Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed down a ruling requiring the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to seek out public comments on the use of Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) scanners. While the Court of Appeals ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center,…
Earlier this week documents from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) revealing more than 25,000 known security breaches since the agency took over airport security screening on the 13th of February 2002 became public knowledge during U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security hearings on TSA Oversight. First off, keep this in mind … 25,000+ known…
This month the topics of aviation security concerns are once again coming to the forefront of the news. Having recently written about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) warning of surgically implanted bombs 18 months after the threat was discovered, and Libya possessing an estimated 250 tons of non-detectable Semtex, I had the opportunity to discuss…
On July 1st Air India and Singapore Airport Terminal Services Limited (SATS) commenced their joint venture handling airport ground services for foreign airlines at India’s Thiruvananthapuram International Airport (TRV), adding onto the two company’s existing ground handling joint ventures at Hyderabad International Airport (HYD) and Bengaluru International Airport (BLR). The joint venture, Air India…
Earlier today the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a security memo to security officials and Transportation Security Officers (TSO) alerting them to the potential terrorist threat of humans traveling with surgically implanted explosives inside their bodies. The TSA’s primary focus is on passengers traveling to the United States from foreign countries and is…
As NATO continues its military actions against Muammar Gadhafi’s Libyan regime, Gadhafi has threatened to carry out attacks in Europe against “homes, offices, families,” unless NATO ceases its airstrikes. Gadhafi’s unstable government has previously carried out acts of terrorism on commercial airliners, most notably Pan Am Flight 103, on the 21st of December 1988,…
As airports security screening around the world has become stricter, and new protocols are put into place, there are been an increasing uproar when it comes to the search of children. In the United States the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has repeatedly come under scrutiny when it comes to performing ‘enhanced pat downs’ on…
Two days ago, on Thursday, Flying With Fish wrote Delta “No Jews” Policy – Could This Story Be More Wrong?, in response to an article by Rabbi Jason Miller, published by the Huffington Post. Rabbi Miller’s article was full of misinformation, even on some of the most basic points. Yesterday, Friday, Rabbi Miller took…
This afternoon The Huffington Post published an article by Rabbi Jason Miller entitled “Delta Adopts Saudi Arabian Airlines’ No Jew Policy.“ Granted, this headline is catchy and is inflammatory enough to make the story go viral … likely even to reach my Mother, who will be outraged and possibly forward me a link sometime in…
Yesterday the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Administrator, John Pistole, informed the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that the TSA would be implementing policy changes regarding the enhanced pat down of children, aged 10 and younger. Details of these changes, and when these changes would be in place, are however vague. In…
