Fast checks of regular fliers extended
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The test program that allows pre-screened travelers to zip through airport security is being extended. The Registered Traveler Program had been scheduled to run for 90 days at each of five big airports.
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If you plan on visiting these places, you better act fast. They may not be there by the time you get around to booking your flight.
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Federal regulators ordered airlines to speed up inspections of the wing slats on newer Boeing 737 jetliners after more problems that could lead to a fire were found in initial inspections this week.
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Washington area travelers will soon be able to speed more quickly through airport security if they are willing to pay a fee, provide personal information to the government and allow their fingerprints and eyes to be scanned at checkpoints.
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A program being launched at 10 U.S. airports this year will expand existing identification checks for visitors, including requiring 10 digital fingerprints, but still operate under strict privacy rules, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
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Exclusive Slim pickings for thin clients
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Frequent Fliers on Finnair will be get flight info and seat assigments as text messages on their cells. Once they reply, they are checked in.
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An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing
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U.S. citizens landing at our airports after trips abroad often are waved through by Customs and Border Protection officials. Some may think this shows a lack of vigilance. Not so.  Officials are on hyper-alert, 24-7. Ask Alex Segura, an employee of the International Monetary Fund in Senegal and Gambia....
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D., and Alane Kochems. The Department of Homeland security has announced a new program, âSecure Flight,â designed to screen flight passenger data and flag possible terrorists before they board an airplane.
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J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java. New to this release: import of checklists from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files, and relational databases; preferred checklists can be assigned to trips and to regions for use when ticking species that have been observed; a search dialog for text in displayed tables; a search dialog for species names in collapsable tables; instructions for accessing the underlying database remotely or from Perl.   Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species ticks, and to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages, or CSV. Checklists can be created, used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and included in trip reports.  You can download it here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19835&package_id=50797
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As security is increased at airports across the UK, leading airlines ask passengers to allow more time to check in.
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All US airlines will soon be ordered to turn over a months&#39; worth of passenger itineraries to the government for testing of the newest version of a passenger prescreening system, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday.
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At the airport check-in of tomorrow, "getting through security" should take 30 seconds.
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The federal transportation Security Administration has changed an airport screening practice in place in some airports based on feedback to its week-old blog site soliciting feedback from travelers.
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Passengers are being mistakenly stopped. Is the list more annoying than effective?
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No one hears passenger complaints more often than security screeners, who must learn a variety of techniques to deal with the mundane, the scary -- and the occasional traveler who doesn't want to abide by the rules.