A new term has been coined for the over-intrusive “random” searches subjected to passengers about to board: Gate Rape.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for September 2002.
Earn triple
Earn triple Alaska Airlines miles with Thrifty car rentals.
Will Wilkinson offers
Will Wilkinson offers a nice takedown of the anti-cloning arguments in the summer 2002 issue of Doublethink.
Shopkeeper, 82, chases
Shopkeeper, 82, chases off armed robber by grabbing the robber’s crotch.
The TSA approach to security
The TSA approach to security — search everyone in long lines, keep weapons out (even though weapons make it through quite often) is the wrong approach to air security. This incident of an attempted strangling of a flight attendant with shoelaces shows that almost anything can be used as a weapon. Air marshalls aren’t the answer. Why exactly don’t we want to arm pilots?
Rain man was
Rain man was right: Qantas never crashed. Of course, even though their pilots like to throw back a couple every now and then, America West never crashed either.
Continental matches American
Continental matches American and USAirways with a “use it or lose it” policy for nonrefundable tickets. No more blowing off a flight and just applying the value of the ticket to a new purchase later.