The Transportation Security Administration this week announced steps that the general public could take to ensure quick and comfortable travel during the summer travel surge.
The agency is preparing for an estimated 200 million air travelers during the peak summer travel period by educating passengers about how to deal with airport checkpoints.
Each month, TSA screeners confiscate more than a million prohibited items each month, including at least 50 firearms, highlighting the need for continued passenger education, according to the TSA.
Passengers should always remember that firearms, fireworks, knives and self-defense sprays are never allowed through a passenger checkpoint, the TSA reported. The items must be placed in checked bags or left at home. Lighters and other incendiary devices are also prohibited.
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To make your travel as smooth as possible in what is shaping up to be the busiest summer travel season in years, US Airways would like to remind our passengers that being informed is being prepared, and usairways.com is the ideal source for travel information. Online, customers can make flight reservations, check in for flights, find forms and procedures for children traveling alone, and check up on required documentation for international travel.
By using the "Travel Planning" feature on usairways.com, customers can see the recommended check-in arrival times at airports across the US Airways system and view up-to-the-minute weather advisories.
Once upon a time a rocker named Eddie Cochran sang, "There ain't no cure for the summertime blues." Clearly, he wasn't talking about travel, because even though air fares and hotel costs are rising and the price of gasoline is high, there are ways to save on summer travel. Here, with input from discount travel site Hotwire.com, are a few ways to cure the summertime travel blues:
Find the road less traveled: Visit places off-season, such as big cities, or destinations most popular in cooler weather. Summer scenery is stunning in mountain towns such as Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Vail and Breckinridge,
Online local search and shopping site features travel expert’s advice on trip planning, packing and traveling by air, car or cruise ship.
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Brown’s advice covers shopping for trip supplies, packing your luggage, coping with problems en route and finding local information once you arrive at your destination.
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Procrastinators beware: the summer travel booking season kicks in six months before the fact, and often enough he who hesitates gets the middle seat. So now that the snow and ice has been melted a good couple weeks, the first flowers are blooming, and the ski season is almost over, it must be time to think about travel in July.
A constellation of factors will conspire to make this one of the trickiest summers to get good deals and avoid crowds in some time:
* pent-up demand
* high fuel costs
* weak dollar
Pent-Up Demand: They're Going Anyway
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Summer may typically be a homework-free time, but don't bet on it if you're planning to travel.
"You have to do you homework this summer," said Henry Harteveldt, a travel-industry expert with Forrester Research.
Fewer flights and smaller planes mean more competition for seats, though Harteveldt says don't make decisions on price alone.
"You really do have to take a look at the health of the airline. Airlines tend to be the drama queens of the travel industry, always susceptible to big news," Harteveldt said.
With domestic travel demand expected to be strong this summer, camping and home swaps may offer
