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Consumer Traveler Today: March 8

03-08-2012

 

Consumer Traveler Today: Are TSA’s whole body scanners worthless? 
 

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Are TSA’s whole body scanners worthless?

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:40 AM PST

Jonathan Corbett, an pro-4th Amendment advocate and the first person in this country to sue the TSA for invasion of privacy, figured out how to go through TSA’s body scanner with a hand-sized metal object concealed in a side pocket of his shirt. He did it repeatedly and even sent the video to TSA for [...]
        

United Premier Accelerator? A traveler’s boon, or one more way to dilute miles

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:00 AM PST

There will be new "bells and whistles" to go along with the hassles being created by the United-Continental merger. One of them may, or may not be the newly unveiled "Premier Accelerator," a way to purchase elite mileage.