In 2006 Raed Jarrar (a US resident) was waiting to board his flight at New York’s JFK airport when he was ordered to remove his shirt since it was making passengers uncomfortable. The t-shirt read “We Will Not Be Silent” in both Arabic and English.
The Transporation Security Authority (TSA) and JetBlue airlines agreeed to settle [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Security’
Passenger forced to cover Arabic Script on his shirt gets awarded $240,000
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Security, Travel Woes, tagged Air Tran, Award, Lawsuit, Off-boarded, Security, T-shirt, We will not be silent on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good News Everyone: TSA puts family screening lanes at all US Airports
Posted in Airports, Passengers, Security, tagged Aerosol, Airport Security, Checkpoint, Family lane, Good News Everyone, Liquids, Security, TSA on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By November 20th, all the US Airports will have designated TSA passenger security-check lanes called “family lanes” to move through security checks and inspections at “their own pace”. The “popular” lanes had been tested earlier at 48 airports “provide a space for families and passengers who don’t travel very often to move through security at [...]
My Experience with the Virtual Strip Search
Posted in Airports, Passengers, tagged Body Search, Checkpoint, Millimeter Wave Scanner, Phoenix Sky Harbor, PHX, Security, Selectee, SSSS, TSA, Virtual Stip Search on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend, I had to fly from Phoenix AZ to San Jose CA and since I had bought a one way ticket, I got the notorious “SSSS” on my boarding pass which allowed me the opportunity to use the Millimeter Wave Scanner (or Virtual Strip Search). “SSSS” means Secondary Security Screening Selection/Selectee, which is printed [...]
Body Scanners to be installed at more Airports
Posted in Airports, Passengers, tagged Body Scanner, Millimeter Wave Machine, Security, TSA on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier, I had blogged about Los Angeles and New York Airport to install the millimeter wave machine (or Body Scanners). Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is installing the machines at 10 busiest US Airports.
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Currently used at – Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and New York’s JFK airport
This Month – Wastington DC’s Reagan [...]
Stansted Hijacker working at Heathrow Airport
Posted in Airports, tagged 727, Hijacker, Nizamuddin, Security, Stansted on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We all expect the people working at Airports to have no criminal records since they are given accesses to various restricted areas of the airport. So, how can a country that claims (and should) have such high security standards allow a person responsible for hijacking a plane some 8 years ago to work at their [...]
Security Lapse at Brisbane Airport casues Chaos
Posted in Airports, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged Australia, Brisbane, Chaos, Security on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On April 30th 2008 around 3:30pm, nine people inadvertently breached security (X-rays) at the Quantas Airlines’ Domestic Terminal causing the whole terminal to be evacuated. All the passengers had to be re-screened causing at least 14 flights to be delayed. A number of planes were also unloaded and the passengers were evacuated to car park [...]
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