News and notes from around the interweb:
- Etihad’s new New York JFK lounge is open, complete with a la cart dining.
- Until Noon eastern today IHG Rewards Club is offering 50% off award nights at The Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas for stays through March 31. That makes reward nights 25,000 instead of 50,000 points.
- BOHICA: Lufthansa cabin crew expected to strike again Thursday and Friday. That, in contrast, will be noticed.
- What to do when you’re stuck in an airport over the holidays
- United’s Europe award sale is now open to everyone (no longer just elites and co-brand credit card holders).
- Indian carrier Kingfisher, once the second largest airline in the country, hasn’t flown in about three years. Its assets are finally being auctioned and little is expected to be recouped to lenders.
- Two members of Congress have introduced legislation for concealed carry permits to be accepted as identification by TSA. They’re government-issued photo IDs, but TSA won’t take them. The TSA will take tribal IDs and HSPD-12 PIV cards.
I’d be curious what the argument is for not accepting weapons permits. REAL ID requirements, perhaps? Maybe states just generally aren’t stringent enough about handing them out, or they’re too easy to forge.
There’s an interesting angle to this somewhere, I’d bet.
I doubt it has anything to do with READ-ID, I’ve actually seen people allowed past the TSA line gatekeepers with nothing more than a SS card. Another time was a utility bill, and another when the TSA agent told the person their DL was expired but let them though anyway.
More likely is that the current administration making a political policy – as usual.
I presented a TSA agent with my HSPD-12 PIV card and was told “we don’t take this”. After a bit of research after I got through security, I found out (Surprise!) that the TSA agent was 100% wrong per TSA’s list of acceptable forms of ID.
On a whim I tried my concealed permit once, and they did accept it. Maybe the person checking knew what it was and what it meant. I’ve had my Global Entry card refused once when I tried it. Hows that for a bit of irony……
I travel several times a week for my job and I had to use my Texas Concealed Carry Permit for about a month, because i had lost my DL. Must have taken at least 10 trips through TSA using my CCP without any issues.