Airport Security

WTF? This is my question, WTF? In this day and age of post 9/11, when we are all supposed to be just a little more vigilant of our surroundings, especially in airports, something like this happens that just makes you shake your head! A man on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to New York’s LaGuardia airport managed to smuggle a monkey onto the flight under his hat. Yes, under his hat! “Smuggle” probably isn’t the correct word, as in my opinion he didn’t try very hard to hide the... Read Full Story

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On a recent flight from Detroit I noticed something that made me cringe- an ashtray on the wall outside the plane’s bathroom. I started wondering how old a plane had to be for it to have an ashtray build right in. If you don’t remember ever being able to smoke on a plane, it might be because most airlines adopted anti-smoking policies well before it was legally mandated by the federal government. The debate over smoking on planes actually began in the early 1980’s, with Muse Air being the... Read Full Story

Clear Sailing Through Airport Security Lines Shortly after my ranting last week about the Canadian airports I came across Clear. If you're the type of person who hates to sit in airports and never arrives two hours prior to a... Read Full Story

Interesting stories todayEgg McMuffin Inventor Dies. I feel as though I have been cheated my entire life, I thought Ronald McDonald invented this stuff, then bam, just kidding! This guy also wrote their first national advertising campaign, Where quality starts fresh every day. Really?Passports Made Abroad. What I dont understand about this one is US officials saying we cant make them here because of the high-tech chips that are placed in all new passports (please note the chips are meant to... Read Full Story