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The Transportation Department will propose that airlines be required to refund fees on checked baggage if the bags aren’t delivered to passengers quickly enough.

TSA no longer allows its employees to create videos on the social media platform TikTok. There are reportedly security concerns about national security issues about the usage and handling of personal data information. Employees were creating videos for TSA social media about what can and can’t be brought on an airplane but not anymore.

A TSA contract worker in Rochester New York learned a tough lesson about Offending passengers. She was fired after a passenger complained that he was passed a note after going through security. He didn’t open the note until he got to the gate and it said, “you ugly.” Apparently the agent had the note written and […]

Two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers were reportedly placed on leave after a racist display was discovered at Miami International Airport. CNN reports, three other officers found two stuffed gorillas tied together and hanging by a noose on July 21. An employee told CNN that the display was hanging from a “pole right in the […]

Life before TSA seems like it was forever ago! There was a time were you could literally drive up to the plane, have your friends wave at you through the window as you take off and wait for you right at the gate. Rules were so relaxed that Tom could call the gate agents and […]

Entertainment

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Diana Ross says she feels “violated” by an airport screener who touched her between her legs after she performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In a series of tweets on Sunday, the Motown legend says she blames the Transportation Security Administration for a screening at the New Orleans […]

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But the inquiry may not have been extensive enough, after realizing that many Black women also complained about being pulled for a search after walking through the body scanners.

Guy has yet another gripe with TSA. He really cannot understand why they always cut off the locks he puts on his luggage. There are TSA approved locks that open with a universal key that agents at all airports have and those are the only locks that he buys. He thinks they’re just too lazy […]

Life & Style

TSA workers are usually among the least-liked government employees. But these days many travelers passing through airports are taking a moment to express their gratitude to the furloughed workers putting in their hours without pay as the partial government shutdown continues. In my research as a scholar of communication, as I outline in my book, “The Art of Gratitude.” I […]

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The partial government shutdown is a double-whammy for Cara and Philip Mangone, a married couple from Philadelphia. Both are officers with the Transportation Safety Administration, both working full time at the Philadelphia airport. Neither knows when they might again start drawing their paychecks. Part-time jobs are out of the question — they work opposite shifts […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — The number of airport security screeners failing to show up for work around the country is soaring as the partial government shutdown goes into its fourth week. No-shows among screeners jumped Sunday and again Monday, when the Transportation Security Administration reported a national absence rate of 7.6 percent compared with 3.2 percent […]

Life & Style

ATLANTA (AP) — It was taking more than an hour for passengers to get through domestic checkpoints at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta on Monday, the first business day after security screeners missed paychecks for the first time due to partial government shutdown. No-shows among screeners across the nation soared Sunday and again Monday, […]