Get ready for some travel changes at El Paso International Airport—starting in February, a new fee for those without Real IDs might catch you off guard.
You now need a Real ID to do several things including travel by air. You aren't totally hosed if you haven't gotten one yet though, there are ways to get around this. Several other documents will work if you don't yet have the new "Real ID".
The TSA just released a report listing the illegal stuff they found last year. Would you be shocked to know that they found an average of six guns a day? I know we all get tired of all the screening and the extra steps we have to go through but imagine if knives, guns and drugs were allowed to flow freely on planes.
A couple of years ago a group of friends and I traveled to Indianapolis to watch a car race. We flew out of Little Rock with a Stop in St. Louis before we would land in Indy. At the St Louis airport I was pulled aside for a security screening. It seem that the boots I was wearing had an unusual feature on them. The name tag on the side of the heel looked like a knife when it passes through the x r
We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency...
Unbelievable right? The Transportation Security Administration's pat down of a 6-year old girl was caught on video by her dad. While the TSA official was professional in her inspection of the little girl, it was over-the-top to subject her to such a process.