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You Can Now Skip Mask Wearing On A Plane For Just $250

by Gary Leff on February 5, 2021

Feb 05 2021

The TSA, which has a hard enough time finding guns and scissors, has a new distraction from its primary mission. They’re now the transportation mask police as a result of taking existing mask rules and making non-compliance a federal offense.

The Transportation Security Administration has announced its new fines for mask non-compliance: first offenses are $250, and fines range up to $1500 for repeated non-compliance. They also have exceptions to mask enforcement, separate from new airline exemptions.

At LAX One TSA Worker Decided Screening Meant Seeing A Woman’s Breasts, Inspecting Down Her Pants

by Gary Leff on January 23, 2021

Jan 23 2021

A TSA screener at LAX has been convicted after requiring a female passenger to show him her breasts, and inspecting down her pants.

In Denver TSA screeners were flagging attractive passengers to ‘alarm’ so that colleagues could pat down their genitals. Think this is unusual? It’s not.

Man Afraid Of Traveling Lived In The Chicago O’Hare Airport For Three Months Before Being Arrested

by Gary Leff on January 18, 2021

Jan 18 2021

Many of us have avoided airports during the Covid-19 pandemic. While air travel is probably safer than most indoor environments, much of what you might do at a destination is off the table. And airports themselves generally lack HEPA air filtration, and there’s often too much congregation at security checkpoints and gate areas.

Which makes it such a strange choice, to me, that one man afraid of the novel coronavirus, decided to live at Chicago O’Hare for the past 3 months. The 36 year old California man has been arrested for criminal trespass.

Marine Confronts A Trump Supporter At The Atlanta Airport Who Just Flew Home From D.C.

by Gary Leff on January 17, 2021

Jan 17 2021

The Atlanta local CBS television station went to the airport to interview Trump supporters returning home from D.C. where some protested and others stormed the U.S. Capitol attempting to disrupt the counting of electoral votes last week.

While talking to a man in a Make America Great Again hat, a man walks up and identifies himself as a “twenty year Marine” and says he “fought for [the man’s right] to protest” and is offended by how the protests broke down into violence, calling them terrorists.

Employees Getting Electrocuted, Call For Closing New Berlin Airport After Just 3 Months

by Gary Leff on January 14, 2021

Jan 14 2021

In 1989 David Hasselhof stood atop the Berlin Wall belting out “Looking for Freedom.” Less than a year later East Germans were finally free.

Thirty one years after David Hasselhof stood between East and West Berlin the East’s old airport finally became Berlin Brandenburg airport. It’s a costly reminder of East German-style planning, with workers still being harmed by the 23 year long project that more than tripled in cost.

CNN Will Stop Being Shown Across U.S. Airports March 31

by Gary Leff on January 12, 2021

Jan 12 2021

CNN is shuttering the CNN Airport Network effective March 31. That means an end to those televisions blaring news across approximately 50 U.S. airports. The cable network explains that this is because of a decline in air travel, and more people “consuming content on their personal devices” rather than watching their broadcasts.

Passengers Arrested And Dragged Out Of Miami Airport Baggage Claim

by Gary Leff on January 11, 2021

Jan 11 2021

In this video shared to social media, women can be seem arrested at baggage claim in the Miami airport. They’re dragged out as they futilely resist the officers and the younger woman screams that “it hurts.” One woman announces that she has four children. A concerned onlooker worries about the kids, but the officer responds confidently that he has experience performing arrests where children are involved.

According to reports in social media a mother and daughter assaulted a flight attendant on their trip to Miami.

Why Washington Dulles Is So Much Worse Than Close-In National Airport

by Gary Leff on January 9, 2021

Jan 09 2021

Washington Dulles is a very bad airport. And the reasons why are simple. It’s far from the city but once you make it to the airport you’re still nowhere near the airport. There will eventually be a train to the airport but it – too – will stop before the actual airport.

The reasons Dulles is so bad are legion, but it’s not limited to corruption. Sure contracts go to friends, the Office of Audit doesn’t do formal audits and jobs go to unqualified friends and relatives. But the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority oversees both Washington Dulles and National airports, and National is so much better. The real reasons are much worse.

Trump Supporters Confronted Senator Lindsey Graham At Washington National Airport Today

by Gary Leff on January 8, 2021

Jan 08 2021

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, serially defenestrated by Donald Trump for the past four years, is viewed as insufficiently supportive of the President by Trump’s supporters – at least by those who came to DC this week and stormed the Capitol.

The President’s supporters found Lindsey Graham flying American Airlines at Washington’s National airport’s C pier and confronted him as a “liar” and a “traitor” for breaking with Trump’s disputing of the election outcome this week. And one raises the QAnon conspiracy calling him a pedophile.

Man Caught With Gun At TSA Checkpoint, Ran Away, But He Forgot His Shoes – And ID

by Gary Leff on December 30, 2020

Dec 30 2020

When the screener asked the man to “step aside” he promptly ran away, left the terminal, and hopped into a taxi. He didn’t even stop to collect his shoes, which he’d sent through the x-ray machine as well. He left his bag behind, and also his wallet along with three forms of ID, “his boarding pass, a New York learner’s permit and his passport.”