So AA is trialing mobile boarding passes out of a couple airports…I tried it this week (see below) and it was awesome.
The TSA guy just waved my blackberry over a scanner at his station, and the gate agent did the same thing at the gate boarding pass reader, and viola I was on the plane…just [...]
Turns out that the ad’d bins at I’ve been seeing at BNA ever since I’ve been coming here are part of a TSA ad trial, and I didn’t realize it was a trial (although had I stopped to think about it, I guess I would have realized I hadn’t seen them at ORD at all). [...]
So, I packed my suitcase all nice and everything inside it. Gave it to the nice AA lady at RSW for them to check.
Make it through the flight (upgrade cleared literally as I was waiting to board for coach…woo woo!), and then to the luggage carousel. Out comes my bag, with an Ethernet cable, and [...]
GREAT blog entry in the NYT’s Jet Lagged blog entitled: The Airport Security Follies written by a commercial pilot. He calls shenanigans on TSA’s Kabuki performance otherwise known as “airport security.”
I strongly encourage people to read this…some highlights:
“No matter that a deadly sharp can be fashioned from virtually anything found on a plane, be it [...]