Consumer Traveler Today: March 21

Consumer Traveler Today: What we’re reading: BA strike, pilots can regain licenses, co-pilot hours increase
 
 
What we’re reading: BA strike, pilots can regain licenses, co-pilot hours increase
Forbes: Travel etiquette in the world’s most-visited countries
TSA workers being fried by radiation
What we’re reading: BA strike, pilots can regain licenses, co-pilot hours increase
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 09:42 AM PDT
BA flight attendants go on strike, NW/DL pilots who overshot MSP airport can regain licenses, co-pilot minimum hours increased by FAA and Senate
       

Forbes: Travel etiquette in the world’s most-visited countries
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 09:21 AM PDT
Forbes presents some thumbnail etiquette advice for the world's most visited countries. Here are is a sample from each country. You never know when a social gaffe might destroy a budding friendship.
       

TSA workers being fried by radiation
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 06:55 AM PDT
Over the past year and certainly over the last few months, fears about the effects of radiation on passengers passing through whole-body scanners have been splashed across newspaper headlines. The bottom line from researchers: Its OK. It would take something like 1,000 screenings per individual per year to exceed radiation standards. We are safe! Radiation won't kill us. But, what about all of those TSA screeners?