Posts Tagged airline security

CDG – Now I Remember Why I Don’t Like It

In Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris.  Haven’t been here for years, but remember vaguely not liking it.  Now I know why. It takes 15 minutes to get from the runway to the terminal building.  That’s not including the time required to get the gantries in place, etc – just taxiing time. Security is both shite [...]

November 9th, 2008 at 13:00 in Random Rocks, Security | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments

Airport Security

Very interesting article from Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic.  He, working with Bruce Schneier, tried to get caught going through airport security with fake boarding passes, carrying large amounts of liquids and generally looking suspicious.  All to no avail. Some of the best bits: During one secondary inspection, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, I [...]

October 17th, 2008 at 07:43 in Security | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments