Ready to pay more in airline fees, thanks to government sloth? The Economist reports on an upcoming increase in aviation fees: …if the American government’s “Aviation Passenger Security Fee”, currently at $2.50 for each leg of travel, is already annoying you, the Obama admini...

Filed under: Business, Airports, Consumer Activism The members of social network Where Are you Now? have spoken! Heathrow is the worst airport in the world, according to voters, thanks to passport control lines and baggage problems. The Brits don't get all the glory, though. JFK in New York and Los ...

Filed under: Video, Airports, News Here's one more "This Bike is a Pipe Bomb" sticker story. This time, instead of closing down Ohio University which is what happened in 2006 when a bike with the sticker on it created a hoopla until the authorities found out that the bike was just a bike, the airpor...

Ty Colfax at G4TV has an interview up with Persuasive Games founding partner Ian Bogost who documents the agony of getting his iPhone game, Jetset: A Game for Airports, through Apple's approvals process. "Their first gripe was about what they claimed was offensive sexual content in the game, which a...

This is a conceptual Nokia gun phone made by somebody in Photoshop. It's fake. Mad fake. Faker than the ID I use to buy booze (I'm 16). Because no phone company has the gigantor cahones it would take to manufacture an actual handgun-phone. And I think we can all agree, that's a fundamental problem w...

Filed under: Gadling Gear Review I've already looked back at the best gadgets 2008 had to offer, and in this list I'll take a look at some of the travel technologies I expect to take off in 2009. Come back next year to either laugh in my face, or remark how amazingly clever I am. Computer/data bundl...

Filed under: Airports While waiting in line, just about everyone bitches and moans about the airport security screening process. But of the over 500 million fliers this year, only 12,000 have filed official complaints with the Transportation Security Administration. The rest of us just air our griev...

George Carlin, as recorded in 1999, some two years before certain events lent Carlin's Airport Security opener a little prescience. "Listen. This is just a series of things that are pissing me off, alright? Because I don't have 'pet peeves', I have major, psychotic fucking hatreds, alright? And I'll...

The silly charade that passes for security at American airports is more disturbing to those of us who resent being treated like prisoners. I once received an e-mail critical of my pointing and laughing at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) buffoonery. It’s author said he would gladly cra...

Filed under: Activism, Airlines, Airports, News I hear a lot of complaints about the TSA, especially since the liquid bans were put into effect, but I'm usually pretty gentle with them. Most of the TSA officers seem to have the right intentions and are willing to work with you. Most of the time they...