5/1/2010 – Who’s Handing Security At US Airports? It’s Not the TSA At 11 Airports When the Transportation Security Administration was placed into airports in November 2002 it had the primary goal of unifying airport security procedures throughout the United States. More than seven years later, 11 airports around the United States continue to use…
29/12/2008 – Flying With Contraband Items? Face Deportation Or Worse With all eyes focusing on airport security over the past few days I’d like to address an every day scenario Customs Agents around the world handle, passengers traveling with illegal items. Illegal items range from the benign Cuban Cigars entering the United States to weapons…
28/12/2009 – TSA Modifies SD-1544-09-06 & Who Will Fix The Broken System? The US Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration has quickly revised portions of its Security Directive SD-1544-09-06, which I posted it its entirety yesterday in this post: 27/12/2009 – TSA Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 : The Fallout From NW253 While the physical…
28/12/2009 – Letter of the Day : The TSA Should Be At All Airports Flying To The US This morning while reading a few dozen emails and sorting through 30+ comments regarding the events surrounding Delta Air Lines Flight 253 and the TSA implementing Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 I received an e-mail with a question that…
27/12/2009 – Northwest Airlines Flight 253 : Myths & Facts There are many myths regarding Delta Air Lines Flight 253 (NW253), Operated by Northwest Airlines and the events of the day that lead to Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab igniting an incendiary device on-board the flight, on the 25th of December. While it is difficult…
25/12/2009 -TAP Air Portugal’s Staff Flash Mob Spreads Holiday Cheer Can the ‘Holiday Spirit’ transform an airport from a vast impersonal space into a vibrant and humanized travel experience? It would seem that the the staff of TAP Air Portugal and Aeroports de Portugal at Lisbon Portela Airport managed to catch their passengers by surprise…
22/12/2009 – Free Custom Luggage Tags from KLM While I am working with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to build their blog I do not plan on producing much day-to-day cross over posts. I’d like to keep the content separate…however how can I resist cross posting the free luggage tag offer? If you travel you probably…
22/12/2009 – Flying With Fish Builds blog.KLM.com Over the past few days I have been distracted from Flying With Fish to undertake the creation of an entirely new blog. This new blog is not mine…well it is mine for the next few weeks…the blog is that of the largest airline in Europe and the fifth…
10/12/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : GateGuru If you bounce from airport to airport, especially airports you are unfamiliar with, you probably appreciate Apps that can help you find what you’re looking for during your limited time in an unfamiliar place. While I have written about various Apps in past that offer up…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish— E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 6/12/2009 – Manchester International Airport…an airport for clean freak flyers When it comes to needing to use the ‘room-for-one’ I detest airports, train stations, airplanes trains…and pretty much anywhere else. As a traveller I may not be organized, but I tend to be a clean-freak. So for those of you who…
