36 days ago by Ben

Happy new year everyone and thank you very much for visiting TrulySimple. I hope you rang in the new year in style. I think we fell asleep at 9pm. haha. But we did get up really early that morning. All excuses aside, its time to think about how we do better in 2012. It’s not too late to make resolut ...

36 days ago by Paul Riegler

The TSA’s PreCheck trusted traveler program will soon be in place at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The PreCheck program at JFK will be available to American Airlines frequent fliers, as well as U.S. citizens who are participating in the Customs and Border Protections’ Trusted Tra ...

37 days ago by evilofindifference

“If you see a guy in a certain kind of blue uniform — with a tie and a badge — he’s obviously a police officer. Right? That’s what we all assume in this country, but if you see a TSA screener wearing a badge, it’s a sham. He’s not a real police power. A new bill in Congress aims to end the sham. Rep ...

37 days ago by Bill Fisher

TSA is touting their new passenger vetting system that will allow “trusted travelers” to provide personal information in exchange for an unspecified form of expedited screening. Apparently not content to invade the physical privacy of travelers by groping and strip searching them, now they want pass ...

37 days ago by carnifex676

37 days ago by Charlie Leocha

This seems like a simple question, but that loose change adds up. Last year the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) collected $376,480.39. It seems that TSA is just keeping the money. The Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA) has waded into this issue joining a two-year-old effort to have the mone ...

37 days ago by wedschild

I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but really people, did you think the idiots were going away? TSA needs a good swift smack with a judicial ban-hammer. Just look at all the pretty lawsuits they’re courting. TSA confiscates cupcake, calls frosting a “gel” (Boing Boing) Smoke Screening (Vanity Fa ...

37 days ago by Charlie Leocha

Here are five predictions for the coming year. All in all, I think consumers are going to come out ahead in the coming year, airlines are going to find a road to profitability, TSA will streamline its inspection processes, airport restaurants and services will get better, communications about delays ...

38 days ago by Jackie and Joel Smith

And as soon as those two words in bold black letters on a bright orange background showed up on the screen, the TSA agent at SeaTac said, “Afraid you are going to have to come with me, ma’am.” And thus began our 2012 travels . . . We were on our way to Las Vegas yesterday, our annual trip to watch c ...

38 days ago by Benjamin Starr

Ah, the Transportation Safety Administration. When an organization designed to keep us safe causes so much hassle and pokes or prods us so often, it’s only fair that we occasionally poke back. Fred Trotter of O’Reilly Radar recently had just such a chance when he was about to take off his shoes at O ...