Blog Profile / Flying With Fish
| URL : | http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Travel / Air Travel | |
| Posts on Regator: | 436 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.2 | |
| Archived Since: | October 29, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Gov’t Wants To Fingerprint Travelers Leaving The U.S., Why It’s A Bad Idea
Yesterday the United States Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-to-5 in favour of an amendment, as part of immigration reform, to require the finger printing of all foreign travelers departing the United States. The bill, proposed by Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT), implements biometric tracking of foreign travelers under the Department of Transportation in three phases. [...]Show More Summary
Delta’s Rationale For Denying Media Access On ‘Worldport’s’ Last Day … Fear
For months I had planned on documenting the last day of New York JFK International Airport’s Terminal 3 operations, the former Pan Am Worldport, on the 23rd of May 2013. After back and forth emails Delta Air Lines declined my access to the historic terminal last week, as well as other media outlets interested in [...]Show More Summary
A Historic Chapter In Aviation Closes & It Won’t Be Documented
In less than one week the former Pan American Airways Unit Terminal Building, more commonly known as the Pan Am WorldPort, at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, taken over by Delta Air Lines in 1991, and now simply known as Terminal 3, will cease operations after 53 years.. JFK’s iconic Terminal [...]Show More Summary
Routehappy Aims To Make Passengers Happier
Booking flights is essentially the same from one online travel agency to another online travel agency. There are some unique online travel agencies, such as Hipmunk, but now Routehappy has entered the fray with a different approach. Routehappy’s goal is unique, to assist travelers in choosing their flights based on the quality or experience [...]Show More Summary
Why “Big Cameras” Aren’t A Threat To Security
It recently happened to me again, just as it has before … and just as it has happened to many other photographers before. I was stopped while shooting photos with my “pro gear” while people stood around me snapping photos with point and shoot cameras and their mobile phones without anyone giving them a second [...]Show More Summary
Gunman In Houston : Shootings, Airports & Security Threats
The headline of “Lone Gunman Opens Fire & Commits Suicide” is becoming all to frequent. Major headlines have most notably occurred in the past few months in movie theaters and schools. Today another headline appears in the same manner, but inside an airport terminal and the only victim was the gunman. While details are [...]Show More Summary
Southwest Airlines Shows The Puppy LUV
Over the years I have come to believe that you don’t deal with Southwest Airlines, you encounter Southwest Airlines. The airline is not so much an airline, or even a company, as it is a culture. While Southwest Airlines is a company, that is also an airline, the very people that make up the airline [...]Show More Summary
National Air Cargo’s 747 Literally Falls Out Of The Sky – VIDEO
DISCLAIMER IF YOU HAVE A FEAR OF FLYING I URGE YOU TO SKIP THIS POST Yesterday afternoon, at approximately 3:30pm (UTC +0430), National Air Cargo flight NCR 102 lifted off from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan to Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport, on a routine cargo flight. Flight NCR 102, a Boeing 747-428BCF (N949CA), operating [...]Show More Summary
Travel Channel’s Airport 24/7 Miami … Season Two Premiers TONIGHT!
Last year Chris Sloan, television producer, aviation geek, founder of archive.com and 2C Media, brought viewers of the Travel Channel into the world of Miami International Airport (MIA) with season one of Airport 24/7 Miami. While Airport 24/7 Miami is billed as a reality show the reality is that it is more a documentary look [...]Show More Summary
TSA Delays Changes To Prohibited Carry On Items & It Makes No Sense
Later this week, on the 25th of April, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was all set to adjust its list of prohibited items allowed to be carried into an aircraft cabin, including small pocket knives, golf clubs and certain types of bats, however these changes have now been delayed. In an e-mail from TSA [...]Show More Summary
The Resurgence Of “Keep Your Boarding Pass Out In The Passenger Screening Area”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has long since done away with the redundant process of requiring passengers to present their boarding pass to a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) before passenger screening, after they have already presented their identification and travel documents to the TSO acting as a travel document checker. The process of double [...]Show More Summary
The U.S. Passport Card Identification Anomaly
Today marks the tenth time I have used my United States Passport Card as identification while flying a domestic flight rather than my drivers’ license since I received it this past February. Today also marks the fourth time a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Transportation Security Officer (TSO) checking identification and board documents has looked up [...]Show More Summary
When Pissing Matches Impact Security : PAPD vs TSA
Regardless of how you feel about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) they agency serves a defined purpose, that of securing transportation security in the United States, primarily in airports. Working along side the TSA in airports are police officers, who are supposed to enforce the laws within the airports, ensuring airport security regulations are properly [...]Show More Summary
A Weekly Twitter Travel Chat You Won’t Want To Miss
As a regular weekly co-host of the #TNI (Travelers Night In) Travel Chat it would be easy for me to shamelessly promote that this chat happens every Thursday at 3:30pm EST and runs for 90 minutes … oh wait I just did … but this blog post isn’t about the #TNI chat. This post [...]Show More Summary
Can A Smart Phone Hack A Flight Computer? Not Really
Last week headlines regarding an Android App’s ability to hack an airliners’ in-flight systems computer once again invoked fear among travelers, however the reality is those fears exist in a virtual world scenario, not a real world scenario. Hugo Teso, an IT security consultant with Germany’s n.runs AG, presented what appears to be some [...]Show More Summary
The TSA, 2.36? Knives, Lack Of Threats & Real Threats
On the 25th of April the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will once again allow certain types of knives, and other prohibited items, to fly once again as carry-on items, which I detailed on the 6th of March in Sharpen Your Knives, Polish Your Golf Clubs & Fly! Since the TSA’s announcement there has been [...]Show More Summary
Foursquare, Travel And Why I Stopped Using It
It might seem odd that someone who make a good portion of their living working with social media within the travel industry would have last checked in with Foursquare on the 23rd of August at their local train station. Foursquare is an excellent social media channel for travel … but as people seem to keep [...]Show More Summary
Sometimes You Just Have To Giggle At Airport Security
Most television ads are barely noticed, they are white noise in the background, but sometimes an ad takes hold and does its job in making connection. For me, this evening one such television advertisement took hold bringing together two things I pay attention to … the Pillsbury Doughboy and Airport Security. While readers of [...]Show More Summary
Wings for Autism at Boston Logan Airport … Wow … Just WOW!
Earlier this week, on the 3rd of April, I wrote about JetBlue’s Wings for Autism program at Boston Logan Airport being held today, the 6th of April. As the father of a child with autism, as well as a frequent flyer, I can honestly say I have long since been worried about flying with my [...]Show More Summary
Revisiting The Absurd : Do You Have A Visa To Work Here? I Live Here
There are many oddities in international travel, often occurring with Immigrations and Customs. Today I ran across Sexism at the border: A personal account by Clay Nikiforuk, which annoyed me to no end. Whether or not all the details of her story are accurate, the issues in the story bother me. The story is not [...]Show More Summary