Flying With Fish The Blog for Those Who Fly & Those Who Want to Fly Smarter

18/1/2010 – Oh Canada … No Carry On Bags … What Is A Photog To Do? The war on terror takes many forms and the target of terrorism seems to have a very clear primary target … The United States of America. Given the obvious target of terrorists it makes absolute sense that nearly a [...]

7/1/2010 – iPhone App of the Week : Survey On The Spot (TSA Survey) Your experience at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints may vary widely from airport to airport and even at different check points within an airport.   Overall whether you agree or disagree with TSA policy the frontline Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) are polite, [...]

6/1/2010 – Follow Up On The Whole TSA Debacle I have thought long and hard about my follow up post to questioning a TSA Special Agent misplacing a notebook used in the investigation of how I obtained a copy of Security Directive SD-1544-09-06. In response the enquiries surrounding the misplaced notebook by the TSA Special [...]

6/1/2010 – Open Letter To The TSA : I’d Like Some Answers About A Notebook Please Throughout the past week there have been many questions regarding the Transportation Security Administration serving Chris Elliot and myself a subpoena in regard to the publishing of Security Directive SD-1544-09-06. My intent in publishing SD-1544-09-06 was to help inform [...]

5/1/2010 – Who’s Handing Security At US Airports? It’s Not the TSA At 11 Airports When the Transportation Security Administration was placed into airports in November 2002 it had the primary goal of unifying airport security procedures throughout the United States. More than seven years later, 11 airports around the United States continue to use [...]

4/1/2010 – The TSA’s Lack Of Leadership & The Saga of Not Having A Boss At the start of 2009 I wrote about the installation of Gale Rossides as the Acting Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), followed up discussing the TSA’s need for a permanent Administrator. Given the significant lapses in the TSA’s [...]

1/1/2010 – Please Help Support Flying With Fish With A Sticker The circumstances of the past week have caused me to view Flying With Fish in a new way. Flying With Fish should be self-sustaining with an annual revenue around $0.00…however the events of the past few days now require me operate the blog in [...]

1/1/2010 – Today Is A New Day Today we usher in not only a new month and a new year…but we also usher in a new decade that was brought to us under a rare blue moon. Last year was not a good year for the airline industry. We watched a number of airlines cease [...]