Tag Archives: TSA

October, 2022

18 October
TSA keeps finding firearms in your carry-on, WTF?

The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) continues to confiscate firearms at security screening points. That statement should shock, yet in 2022, it hardly causes a ripple on the surface of life. Who is trying to bring firearms onto flights in the United States - apparently thousands of you. So let us …

21 November
Traveler’s firearm discharges at TSA checkpoint in Atlanta

Kenny Wells entered the TSA security inspection area at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (ATL) to board a flight when his carry-on bag was pulled aside for a bag search. The scanner had detected a hand gun in the bag. What followed caused all hell to break loose in one of the …
18 November
Securely Travel’s Thanksgiving 2021 Travel Safety Tip Sheet

Thanksgiving weekend is just around the corner, and the AAA tells us that 53 million of us will be traveling, a good many of us by air. TSA expects a surge of travelers at the nation’s airports, with the possibility that the number of travelers will approach 2019 levels. “We …
10 November
TSA - Travel numbers continue to increase

A quick look at the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) stats on travel for the first week of November 2021 shows a low of 1.48 million passengers and a high of 2.15 million passengers for an average of 1.81 million travelers. This is a significant uptick, 233 percent, from 2020, when …

31 October
Zensors or MyTSA - Which app to use this holiday season?

U.S. airports push through more than 25 million passengers a day. Every one of them travels to and from the airport; checks into their flight and goes through the TSA security checkpoint. Many travelers also check bags. We looked at two apps which are similar, yet different which may help …
7 October
TSA & Delta Airline security failure at Orlando International

From time to time travelers get on the wrong plane. And there have been attempts to bypass the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) screening process. What we haven’t seen, nor did we wish to ever see is an individual who made it through the TSA security check and onto an airplane …

6 September
Ewww - Don’t touch those airport security bins

Airport security checkpoints are full of microbes! A number of media outlets ranging from the Stars and Stripes to Sciencealert highlighted the results of a recent study by a group of international scientists that indicates we are all one touch away from having a myriad of maladies passed to us …

30 June
4th of July Travel Safety - Air, Land, Cyber and Backyard

The weekend is here! And the 4th of July falls midweek … do we take the whole week off, or take 2-days on the front or back end for a five-day mini-holiday or staycation? Regardless of which direction you go, celebrating the 242nd Anniversary of Independence will be one to …

10 May
Airport Security - What you can and can’t take

Making one’s way through airport security has become an art form, and though we would think the processes are uniform, they are far from it. The differences are less about intent and more about technology assisting the airport screener. In the United States the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA) administers the …

10 April
Security Travel Brief - 10 April 2018

Travel Brief - April 10,2018 The governments of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have issued travel warnings and advisories for a number of locales around the world. France: Rail Strike Advisory The UK issued a warning to its citizens concerning the rail strike taking place in France, …