Consumer Traveler Today: March 20

Consumer Traveler Today: TSA moves forward with untested, costly whole-body scanner deployment
 
 
TSA moves forward with untested, costly whole-body scanner deployment
NYC taxi drivers overcharge passengers $8.3 million
US Airways fined $40,000 for failing to disclose full airfares
TSA moves forward with untested, costly whole-body scanner deployment
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:30 AM PDT
Where are our Congressional watchdogs these days? When it comes to counter-terrorism issues, they are all hiding. No one wants to seem to be soft on terror even as our pockets are being picked by misdirected spending and millions of Americans are facing more and more travels hassles.
       

NYC taxi drivers overcharge passengers $8.3 million
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:30 AM PDT
In the Big Apple, they do it bigger. Someone once told me that as I was walking through the office-building canyons in midtown. It was a good thing I wasn't driving through these same canyons in a taxi. I may have been being fleeced without my knowledge.
       

US Airways fined $40,000 for failing to disclose full airfares
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:30 AM PDT
In yet another sign that the Transportation Department is serious about protecting the rights of consumers, the government this morning fined US Airways $40,000 for failing to disclose the full price consumers must pay for air transportation.