Articles tagged “tsa”

Unfortunately for the TSA, the General Accounting Office is as non-partisan as Washington, D.C. gets. When it says you have a problem, you have a problem.

The TSA makes it so easy for critics to point out the agency’s operational inefficiencies, which waste taxpayers’ money and overshadow its necessary security functions.

The benefits are likely to be found for passengers arriving in the U.S. from abroad and making a connecting flight to another U.S. airport.

The bombing at the Boston Marathon, although not directed at an airline, should rid carriers and the TSA of any complacency regarding cockpit security. On the other hand, we hope the sequester won't prompt the TSA to cut any corners.

Once again, technology is slowly catching up with reality. Now, travelers who are eligible for TSA Pre-Check will more easily be able to figure out which security lane they should head toward when they get to the airport.

This is a major reversal even though the TSA says the move is temporary. In the past few weeks, despite scathing criticism, the TSA seemed hell-bent on proceeding with the policy.

Passengers were the loudest complainers about the no-tiny-knife policy the TSA had prior to last month's announcement easing the restrictions, and they're the first ones to suggest publicly that the opponents aren't speaking for the traveling public.

The TSA says it had been planning this policy change for awhile, but we think the Phoenix incident might have fast-tracked the change.

After a decade of complaining that the TSA focused too much on the little things and not on real threats to an airplane's safety, a number of politicians and long-time critics are taking the TSA to task for making adjustments that will allow them to focus on the big things.

This is the shift people have been begging for for years: Don't focus on the little stuff. So why are lawmakers, flight attendants, and the usual TSA critics up in arms over tiny knives?