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  • Opinion:TSA Making Air Travel as Unpleasant as Possible

    By The Cato Institute July 13, 2009

    by Doug Bandow The Transportation Safety Administration long has made air travel as unpleasant as possible without obvious regard to the impact on safety. Thankfully, the TSA recently dropped the inane procedure of asking to see your boarding pass as you passed through the checkpoint — a few...

  • Opinion:9/11 Ignored-Obama Undermines Airline & Train Security

    By Competitive Enterprise Institute September 13, 2009

    In the aftermath of 9/11, Congress foolishly shifted airline security screening to the inept Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which has failed to detect explosive ingredients and fake bombs, in performance tests . Now the Obama Administration is making matters even worse by...

  • Video:Calling Capt. Sully! Plane Misses Airport by 150 Miles

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff October 23, 2009

    Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles before discovering the mistake and turning around. The Associated Press reports:

  • Video:Plane Lands Safely After Pilot Dies Mid-Flight

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff June 18, 2009

    The Federal Aviation Administration says a plane carrying a pilot who died in mid-flight has landed safely at the airport in Newark, New Jersey. The flight landed just before noon Thursday. A spokeswoman for the airline said that the 61-year-old pilot died of natural causes. The Associated Press...

  • Video:Plane Lands in West Virginia With Hole in Fuselage

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff July 14, 2009

    Southwest Airlines is inspecting nearly 200 of its aircraft after a hole the fuselage of a plane forced an emergency landing in West Virginia. No passengers were hurt. The Associated Press' Sophia Manos has more...

  • News:Japanese Airline Asks You to "Go to the Bathroom Before Boarding"

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff October 08, 2009

    A Japanese airline has a very noble thought -- make planes lighter, so they use less fuel, and thus reduce carbon emissions. Just the way it is going about it is a little strange. The airline wants its passengers to be lighter, by going to the bathroom before boarding a flight . All Nippon...

  • News:New Rules Limit Tarmac Waiting to 3 Hours-Is it Still Too Long?

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff December 21, 2009

    Over the past couple of years we have heard horror stories of people stuck inside airplanes on tarmacs for hours, with bathrooms backing up, crying kids , no food , no end in sight. That will hopefully be a thing of the past under new rules announced Monday. But do those rules?go far enough? The...

  • News:Should Airlines be Allowed to Ban Sick Passengers?

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff January 05, 2010

    We've all been in this situation: We're sitting in an airplane and the person sitting next to us is sneezing like crazy and coughing up a lung. We secretly wish there was a way to get this person off the plane. Well, that secret thought is now a public health question. Should airlines be...