TSA to pilot new service - "Ship Hazardous Items in Transit"
TravelAirports We’ve covered all the bad things the TSA has done in recent years - but we are not always anti-TSA. When the PR agency for the TSA contacted us about a new service they are currently testing at Las Vegas airport, we decided to prove we are not always on the lookout for bad TSA news....
Hero pilot who landed on Hudson turning into a real jerk
Posted by admin in Travel Blog on 04 1st, 2009 | No Comments
TravelApril Fools Posts Two months ago, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger became an American hero when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River near Manhattan. Today, many of those closest to Sullenberger say that all the media attention that followed the landing has...
Europeans To Cut 500,000 Tonnes of CO2
ACI EUROPE , CANSO , EUROCONTROL and IATA have today launched a joint action plan to reduce CO2 emitted by aircraft in Europe by over half a million tonnes a year. The plan was launched at the 4th Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva. It will implement Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) at up...
Airport baggage thief admits to stealing over 600 bags
Posted by admin in Travel Blog on 03 30th, 2009 | No Comments
TravelVideo , Airports , News Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Yikes. Turns out not all baggage thieves are sophisticated criminals. Dallas police just arrested 39 year old Patrick Brown who was stealing up to...
Gadling teaches you to read the Cyrillic alphabet in 5 minutes
Posted by admin in Travel Blog on 03 30th, 2009 | No Comments
TravelLearning , Russian Federation It used to be that when I saw Russian words like this– компьюÌ?тер, Ñ?тудеÌ?нт, паÌ?Ñ?порт– my eyes skipped over them like yours probably just did. But the Cyrillic alphabet , which is used in Slavic languages like Russian as well...
TSA workers at Logan Airport treated for scabies
TravelAirports , News , Travel Health I feel for those three TSA workers who were found to have scabies. I just read about them in this article at WBZ . Each of them worked during the same shift at the same check point at Logan Airport in Boston. It is not clear how they got scabies. TSA officials have...


