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31/12/2009 – Happy New Year! What a year it has been. From airline failures, to airline mergers, airlines changing alliances, the Boeing 787 finally taking flight and more stories than can possibly be mentioned at the moment! This year has seen many changes in the focus of Flying With Fish and its author. I look [...]

31/12/2009 – SD-1544-09-06 : This Comes To An End Shortly before 7:00pm this evening I received a phone call that would end this year and allow me to have a Happy New Year. My call this evening came from John Drennan, the Transportation Security Administration‘s Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement informing me that the TSA [...]

31/12/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : Homeland Security News Reader This week’s iPhone App of the Week was a last minute substitution give the events of this past week here on Flying With Fish. iPhone Apps come in all sorts of effective uses and this week’s iPhone App of the Week is ideal [...]

31/12/2009 – The Fallout From SD-1544-0906 : The Feds Take My Computer I started writing this post yesterday, but I have been writing and rewriting it all night. This post is nothing special, it is not a masterwork equal to that of Tolstoy, Twain or Shakespeare. This post also isn’t how I wanted to end [...]

30/12/2009 – The Fallout From SD-1544-09-06 : The Feds At My Door Yesterday evening was like most other nights, until around 6:30pm when I received a phone call from Chris Elliot. Chris is a travel journalist, who happens to be National Geographic Traveler’s Reader Advocate, writes a regular column for The Washington Post, produce a [...]

29/12/2008 – Flying With Contraband Items? Face Deportation Or Worse With all eyes focusing on airport security over the past few days I’d like to address an every day scenario Customs Agents around the world handle, passengers traveling with illegal items. Illegal items range from the benign Cuban Cigars entering the United States to weapons [...]

29/12/2009 – Temporary Carry On Baggage Restrictions In Canada & UK As A Result Of  TSA SD-1544-09-06 Over the past few days carry-on baggage regulations for flights to the United States have been in a state of flux following the attempted terrorist attack on Delta Air Lines Flight 253, operated by Northwest Airlines and the [...]

28/12/2009 – Myth: Flight NW253 Terrorist Boarded The Flight With No Passport Earlier today the Detroit News and New York Daily News reported that a couple, Kurt & Lori Haskell, of Newport, Michigan, both attorneys, witnessed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding Delta Flight 253, operated by Northwest Airlines without a passport at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Kurt [...]

28/12/2009 – TSA Modifies SD-1544-09-06 & Who Will Fix The Broken System? The US Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration has quickly revised portions of its Security Directive SD-1544-09-06, which I posted it its entirety yesterday in this post: 27/12/2009 – TSA Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 : The Fallout From NW253 While the physical [...]

28/12/2009 – Letter of the Day : The TSA Should Be At All Airports Flying To The US This morning while reading a few dozen emails and sorting through 30+ comments regarding the events surrounding Delta Air Lines Flight 253 and the TSA implementing Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 I received an e-mail with a question that [...]