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Elephant Meat, Dead Primate, Snake Bags Seized at LAX
The charmingly named Daily Breeze reports on an ugly story: Seizures by U.S. Customs officials in Los Angeles that included elephant meat, a dead (stuffed) primate and several purses made from various reptiles. Most of the creatures are endangered. Primate in pants (this really happened) What People Do with This Stuff A spokesman for Customs … Read Elephant Meat, Dead Primate, Snake Bags Seized at LAX
Posted In: Airport SecurityNot Your Average Air Travel Story: Week of May 13
This week: Gremlins on planes, rude passengers and 3 unusual videos! How to board ahead of the herd: American Airlines now allows passengers with teeny-tiny carry-ons that can fit under the seats in front of them to board early. Bam! That’s the sound of a million folks ditching hard-sided hand luggage. Rude passengers: See the gremlin … Read Not Your Average Air Travel Story: Week of May 13
Posted In: Airline News, Airport News, Airport SecurityAnimals at Airports: From Working Critters to Wild Carnivores
Starting next month, Chicago’s ode to the technological marvels of the jet-age – we speak of O’Hare, of course – will take flight into the past with an old-school method of lawn mowing: Goats. Goats at Airports That’s right, about 25 goats (complete with shepherd) are expected to begin a pilot “vegetation-management” program at the … Read Animals at Airports: From Working Critters to Wild Carnivores
Posted In: Airport News, Airport SecurityAirlines Alert Passengers to Faster Security Status via Boarding Pass
Delta, United and US Airways are now alerting passengers if they are eligible for the faster PreCheck security lanes via a notation on their boarding passes. It’s not always easy to find, so look carefully at the image of the Delta boarding pass and find more examples here. Other PreCheck-participating airlines including Alaska and American … Read Airlines Alert Passengers to Faster Security Status via Boarding Pass
Posted In: Airport SecurityTSA Delays New Knives-on-Planes Policy
Starting Thursday (April 25), the TSA was to have dropped its ban on small knives on planes – not switchblades or butcher knives, but what are commonly referred to as pocket or pen knives. The test for such knives: no lock-in-place blades and blades no longer than about 2-and-a-half inches. Now the security agency says, … Read TSA Delays New Knives-on-Planes Policy
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