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Are Paperless Passports In Your Future?
We’ve written before about states developing applications for paperless driver’s licenses. Now Australia is taking it one step further: Paperless passports. The country is already fairly advanced in passport technology. Australia supports ePassports, meaning it can read chips on passports and automatically takes photographs of everyone entering and leaving the country. “An ePassport contains a chip storing information about the passport holder such as their photo...
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Los Angeles airport to build special terminal just for celebrities
Special suite at LAX will let stars and the world’s wealthy glide directly from their limo to their first-class seat without having to interact with the public. Welcome to the 1%’s new airport terminal. Los Angeles international airport on Thursday won approval to build a special terminal to allow celebrities, sports stars and the world’s wealthy to glide directly from their chauffeur-driven limo to their first-class seat without having to interact with any of the general travelling public.
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Time to close the TSA
Let’s face it: The Transportation Security Administration, which annually costs taxpayers more than $7 billion, should never have been created. By Jeff Jacoby.
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TSA airport screeners’ ability to detect weapons declared “pitiful”
Security measures under "full system review." Agency considering using dogs. By David Kravets.
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MIT Researchers Devise A More Fair System To Decide Who Gets Screwed By Flight Delays
Your flight is still getting delayed, you might just be a little less angry about it.
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Kuala Lumpur’s $1 Billion Air Terminal Is Sinking, Airline Says
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world.
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How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6 Billion Embarrassment
The inspectors could hardly believe what they were seeing. Summoned from their headquarters near Munich, the team of logistics, safety, and aviation experts had arrived at newly constructed Berlin Brandenburg International Willy Brandt Airport in the fall of 2011 to begin a lengthy series of checks and approvals for the €600 million ($656 million) terminal...
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TSA closing loopholes in screening aviation workers for terror links
The Transportation Security Administration, which repeatedly screens 2 million airport workers, didn't identify 73 workers potentially associated with terrorism, according to a watchdog report Monday. The
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What's Up With That: Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever
Waiting to get on an airplane sucks. Is it possible that there's a better way?
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Kelowna Airport on standby for possible emergency
A man has been taken into custody at the Kelowna Airport after emergency crews were placed on standby following a threat against an Edmonton-Kelowna-Calgary WestJet flight.
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What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
Among the many changes the Nobel Prize brought to Schmidt’s life: travel hassles. Here’s what he said it’s like to carry a Nobel medal aboard an airplane
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Ebola screening begins at US airports
Travellers from Ebola-affected countries will face increased security scrutiny at five major US airports. Passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have their temperatures taken and have to answer questions. The Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 7,200, mostly in West Africa.
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US flight chaos after Chicago air-traffic control arson
Almost 2,000 flights were canceled, including more than 1,500 from O'Hare, leaving thousands of frustrated passengers stranded and unsure when they'd be able to travel
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Airport Parking Site Apologizes for Using Man's Death in Promotion
An airport parking website has apologized after using a man's death to promote their services. On Sept. 15, a man was found dead at a parking lot at the Chicago O'Hare airport. A police source said it may have been a suicide.
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San Diego Cabbies Cry Foul Over Body Odor Test
Body odor is among 52 criteria that officials at San Diego International Airport use to judge taxi drivers. Cabbies say that smacks of prejudice and discrimination. For years, inspectors with the San Diego Regional Airport Authority run down their checklist for each cabbie — proof of insurance, functioning windshield wipers, adequate tire treads, good brakes. Drivers are graded pass, fail or needs fixing.
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Hong Kong Has Solved The Most Annoying Thing About Going To The Airport
The two basic options for traveling to a major metro airport with lots of luggage are bad and worse. You can go by car, which comes with the stress of beating traffic against a ticking clock and the heavy cost of parking fees, cab fares, or inconveniencing friends. Or, in some places, you can travel by transit or train, which comes with the uncomfortable and often physically demanding task of maneuvering bags through turnstiles, up and down stairs, and through crowds of fellow riders.
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TSA Contest Asks Travelers to Improve Airport Security
The Transportation Security Administration is taking suggestions for how to improve airport security lines, and they're even offering a reward. The TSA must be as frustrated as most passengers by delayed security lines, because the agency is offering a total of $15,000 for the best ideas to improve the system. The top submissions from the public will win at least $2,500 from that pot, with the best idea earning at least $5,000.
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The arrival of an Ebola-infected air passenger in Nigeria has airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world
A MAN collapses at an international airport: It’s a hackneyed scene from almost every plague film ever made. But now it has happened — airports around the world are on high alert as fears mount that the deadly Ebola virus is on the move. Nigerian health authorities are racing to stop the spread of the flesh-eating Ebola virus after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases carried it by plane to Lagos, Africa’s largest city with 21 million people.
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Hundreds of birds poisoned and killed at Bush Airport
Hundreds of birds were poisoned and killed at Bush Intercontinental Airport this past weekend as part of a “bird abatement project” that animal rights groups call cruel and inhumane. Just after daybreak on Saturday and Sunday, the I-Team captured on video something strange happening—birds dropping mysteriously from the sky in distress.
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Venezuela's Largest Airport Imposes 'Breathing Tax'
We thought we'd seen it all when it came to crazy air travel fees, but alas, we were wrong. Carcas' Simón Bolívar International Airport - Venezuela's largest airport - is imposing a new levy that has nothing to do with overweight luggage or enhanced security.
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