Guess who might be considering profiling at airports despite cries from the usual suspects.

Here is yet another informative article in Der Spiegel regarding airport security. This one is quite surprising, yet it shows that at least some Germans do get it: that lining up innocent people, making them remove shoes for no good reason, and to place their laptops in a separate container is nothing more than a [...]

Airport and ship Security–my own experience

Over the past two weeks I have been on a cruise from Sydney Australia to various New Zealand ports and then home again. This gave me an opportunity to experience first hand security within an airport here in Australia, as well as security on board a ship.   I am a person who likes to [...]

Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted

There is no doubt in my mind that the issue of airport security is very contentious. There are many reasons for having proper security in place. However, there is also a need for a common sense approach to the whole matter. I am not in the security business, and I have never been in the [...]

Proof that TSA is useless and ineffective

Time to sue the TSA every time they treat people this way I was just guided to this particular video. There is something wrong about the way in which the woman traveller was treated.  It also shows that having the TSA at airports is a waste of time and of money. The TSA has not [...]

What is the best way to respond to threats of terrorism? Reactive vs.. Proactive part 1

The threat of terrorism has been around for a very long time. In the 1960s we had a spate of hijackings and aircraft being blown up, and in the end this activity was the death-knell of Pan Am. In the 1970s this activity continued and it included the terrorist attack upon the Israeli Olympic team [...]

New York hails pilot who landed jetliner in Hudson River

The Hudson River New York has been the scene of a dramatic landing for a stricken aircraft. The pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberg III, an ex-USAF fighter pilot and a professional pilot for 40 years, made what has been described as a text-book landing, thus saving the life of all 155 on board the A320 Airbus. [...]