Checkpoint

Fearing loss or theft, people traveling by plane often bring their most valuable possessions with them in their carry-on bags. Doing that will usually prevent stuff from getting lost. However,…

You get to the airport for your cross country trip and have done everything you can to prepare to go through X-ray as quickly and easily as possible. You’re all…

If you’re old enough to remember airports before 9/11, you’ll recall we didn’t always used to go through TSA checkpoints. If we had a flight to catch, we’d just check…

With so many more people going to airports again, and the TSA scrambling to hire more employees (would YOU want to work at a place that treats their workers like…

With more and more people traveling, depending on where in the U.S. you’re flying/driving/floating into or out of, the lines at the TSA checkpoint and/or customs/immigration can be ridiculously long…

In the years after 9/11, and especially after an incident on Northwest Airlines flight 253 in 2009, the TSA began introducing “backscatter” screening machines made by Rapiscan. They were the…

Well, that didn’t take long 😉 It’s barely been a week since the first airport in the U.S. has implemented virtual queuing, and now another one is doing a pilot…

TSA Pre-Check. Many people who travel on an even semi-regular basis say it’s the best money they’ve ever spent. For $85, you can skip a good portion of the regular…

Before the travel slowdown, many travelers at busy airports swore by the CLEAR checkpoints. Being able to skip the long lines for security and even TSA Precheck would save precious…

When the US economy tried to reopen, one of the almost universally implemented policies from businesses to keep employees and guests safe was the temperature check. While employees are usually…