What if the person operating your airport body scanner wasn’t a person at all? That’s the direction the Transportation Security Administration is heading. The agency is developing an automated passenger screening system that would use artificial intelligence and machine vision to guide travelers through Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) scanners without a TSA officer actively controlling the...
Every year, travelers lose items they never expected to lose at airport security. Peanut butter. Nutella. Pudding cups. Sunscreen. Jelly. Items that feel entirely harmless. The Transportation Security Administration confiscates them anyway, and the reason has nothing to do with those specific products. It has to do with what happened on the morning of Aug. 9, 2006, when British police disrupted...
I spent eight years as a TSA officer before going viral for educating travelers about their rights. Now I run Gate Access, the insider travel publication sourced from active flight attendants, gate agents, and aviation professionals.