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FlyerTalk video proof that NZ Customs is much harsher than US Customs  
21:50 5-Oct-08   [Replies: 55, Views: 1864]    By: Unnamed
video proof that NZ Customs is way harsher than US Customs..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HBCOLjhG18 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HBCOLjhG18]> got a couple of questions a...
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FlyerTalk RFID passport shielding possible ?  
17:52 4-Oct-08   [Replies: 24, Views: 812]    By: rally
MY new passport has the RFID chip , thats fine when I go thru customs and immigration , , But how do I shield it at other times ? will the silver metallic plastic bag that computer ca...
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FlyerTalk How long it will take TSA to forbid per bag overcharges?  
21:14 3-Oct-08   [Replies: 18, Views: 1034]    By: m44
The only result of the per bag charges many airlines introduced is that more people carry the "kitchen sink" on board - this in turn causes TSA checkers have more work, requir...
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FlyerTalk Pot Garden "Inspected By TSA"  
19:09 2-Oct-08   [Replies: 6, Views: 524]    By: mbstone
EMHOUSE, Texas — Deputies securing a clandestine field of marijuana Tuesday found plants tied to stakes by tape bearing the Department of Homeland Security logo and the words "...
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FlyerTalk TSA Likely to Relax Restrictions on Liquids in 2009  
16:44 2-Oct-08   [Replies: 60, Views: 2321]    By: essxjay
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008...quids-in-2009/ [http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/10/02/tsa-likely-to-relax-restrictions-on-liquids-in-2009/]> Too good to be true? Quote: ...
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FlyerTalk Feingold moves to limit laptop searches  
02:18 2-Oct-08   [Replies: 41, Views: 1476]    By: Unnamed
While this is a promising development, it's too bad Russ isn't introducing legislation to ban TSA. Quote: Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has introduced a bill that w...
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FlyerTalk Metal plates send messages to airport screener xrays [merged threads]  
18:32 1-Oct-08   [Replies: 37, Views: 1834]    By: Boraxo
As posted today on boingboing: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/01...s-send-me.html [http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/01/metal-plates-send-me.html]> A great idea, if it weren't...
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FlyerTalk Let the crew fly on through  
11:53 29-Sep-08   [Replies: 85, Views: 2816]    By: sobore
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,6784070.story [http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon_airport_securitysep29,0,6784070.story]> Southwest Airlines is testing a novel wa...
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FlyerTalk Wait times website - to be overhauled  
21:24 25-Sep-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 48]    By: Andy1369
Important alert - if you rely on the "wait times" website, be forewarned that they are going to change the format from precise, exact wait times to "ballpark figures"...
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FlyerTalk Islamabad airport on red alert following bomb threat  
10:40 25-Sep-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 58]    By: essxjay
gulfnews.com [http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10247616.html]> Quote: Authorities boosted security at Islamabad's international airport on Thursday after a t...
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FlyerTalk Avoid Laptop Searches - Leave Your Hard Drive At Home, Boot off a USB ..  
00:13 25-Sep-08   [Replies: 29, Views: 623]    By: BigFlyer
Perhaps this is for the ultra-paranoid only..... It is fairly easy to install a bootable Linux operating system onto a USB thumb drive. Once you have done that, you just stick the U...
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FlyerTalk Attempt to use toilet in flight lands doctor in jail  
21:07 24-Sep-08   [Replies: 60, Views: 3905]    By: El Cochinito
Quote: Dr Sivaprasad D Madduri of Missouri, who landed in jail when he attempted to use the toilet during a flight, has initiated legal action against Southwest Ai...
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FlyerTalk list of airports with strip search machine?  
16:37 24-Sep-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 220]    By: neko
Is there an up-to-date list, here or elsewhere, of airports/terminals with the strip search machine? Unfortunately, I have to travel to the US early next month and so I'd like to pic...
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FlyerTalk Married to US citizen, can I fly domestically?  
02:44 24-Sep-08   [Replies: 22, Views: 790]    By: Unnamed
Hey all. First off I'd like to apologise if a thread like this already exists; if it does, I overlooked it while looking for it, so I thought it a safer bet to make a new thread. ...
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FlyerTalk Travelers Bill of Rights (Canadian Style)  
20:31 23-Sep-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 124]    By: Unnamed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26838562/ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26838562/]> ...
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FlyerTalk Which would you pick? Mind-reading+no security, or security-/-mind rea..  
20:20 23-Sep-08   [Replies: 13, Views: 314]    By: Andy1369
Here's a difficult question for you guys... Which would you prefer? 1) A "mind-reading" machine, that reads your mind patterns... but almost no security (you'll be able to brin...
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FlyerTalk Amtrak doing big security drill  
11:14 23-Sep-08   [Replies: 7, Views: 446]    By: doober
Apparently, Amtrak is running a security drill along the Eastern seaboard today. Any passenger is subject to being stopped, asked for ID and endure a baggage search. ...
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FlyerTalk New VISIT USA Experience  
00:28 23-Sep-08   [Replies: 11, Views: 672]    By: Unnamed
Got off a LHR- ORD flight last night and there was a "barker" yelling, "passports out to ID page, no phones," followed by 4 uniformed goons demanding passport all we...
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FlyerTalk Cockpit door opens during takeoff  
19:22 22-Sep-08   [Replies: 30, Views: 1533]    By: laidback71
I have never seen this before. During takeoff last week on a UA flight YYZ-ORD I hear a bang up front and look up to see the cockpit door open. The FA gets up from her seat (we are on ...
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FlyerTalk TSA throwing out liquids and gels  
17:51 22-Sep-08   [Replies: 53, Views: 2446]    By: Medic1
I witnessed a strange exchange at SEA today when going through security. A TSA person was standing in front of my x-ray machine saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, all liquids must be o...
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FlyerTalk JFK JetBlue Terminal Evacuated this AM  
12:39 22-Sep-08   [Replies: 36, Views: 981]    By: SDF_Traveler
Suspicious package... Turned out to be two WWII Grenade shaped paper-weights. (per CNN television) Terminal open again. ...
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FlyerTalk OT: Possible security loophole at AMS (and other similar airports)  
17:03 21-Sep-08   [Replies: 47, Views: 1933]    By: Gaz
Bit of a weird one here but go with me. Travelling through AMS this weekend reminded me of a seemingly glaringly obvious security loophole I first thought about a few years ago, which no...
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FlyerTalk Experience arriving at MCO from DUB...  
16:16 21-Sep-08   [Replies: 37, Views: 1908]    By: flame
Hopefully, I have posted this in the correct forum, if not Mod please redirect.. Yesterday Sat 20th Sept I arrived at MCO with Aer Lingus from DUB. We were the only flight using US I...
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FlyerTalk TSA distributes water to hurricane victims  
21:48 20-Sep-08   [Replies: 45, Views: 1197]    By: Gargoyle
Quote: A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer hands out bottled water [http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Airline-Security/ss/events/ts/082506airlinesec...
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FlyerTalk Anxiety-detecting machines being tested for airport screening  
14:48 19-Sep-08   [Replies: 47, Views: 1785]    By: macabus
Now this is truly frightening. USA TODAY [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-18-bioscanner_N.htm]> A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walk...
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