After a failed terrorist attack on a recent flight, the TSA is at it again. They’ve apparently changed rules for travel without telling us. What does this mean? Who knows, but if you go to the TSA website or blog you’ll learn nothing. Absolutely nothing. As a business traveler, I need to know a few things like how many carry ons I can bring on the plane and what I need to do in order to not miss connections. On time arrivals are extremely important for my line of work.
So far the New York Times is trying to make sense of it all on its various sites and blogs. Go check it out here and good luck if you have to travel in the next few days.
In the meantime, I have a few suggestions for the TSA:
- Offer some certainty for travel – spell out rules and enforce them consistently
- Focus more on screening and less on identity
- Put more focus on training the employees you have
- Let me read a damn book through the last hour of flight
