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TSA’s statement about the cupcake they confisfacted:

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

This will be short and “sweet.” Like many of you, when I think of a cupcake, I don’t think of it being in a jar. However, the photo below shows the “cupcake” that was prohibited from being taken into the cabin of a plane last month.

Cupcake Jar Photo Courtesy of Consumertraveler.com
I wanted to make it [...]

January 16, 2010: J.F.K. Terminal Evacuated (via @ChrisLevinson)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The New York Times has this one:
A terminal at Kennedy International Airport was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after a man apparently used a restricted doorway, a breach that delayed dozens of flights and threw the airport into disarray as hundreds of people were rescreened, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17JFK.html
Via @ChrisLevinson

New category on Flight Club: Airport Security Issues

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Hi there. Notice a recent change in the number of airport security issues? Yup, either the TSA is feeling starved for attention or they’ve instituted a quota system. Or the terrorists are winning. Or, or, well, yeah. Here at Flight Blog action has been taken: A new category for blog posts. That’s what you do [...]