Here’s some news and notes from around the travel world that you might be interested in:
- My 2025 Miles and Points Resolutions – Travel Points Playbook
- Airline company corporate headquarters leaving Dayton after 40 years – WHIO
- U.S. citizen denied entry into Poland after security staff object to handwritten notes in passport – Associated Press
- At $10 Billion A Year, TSA Still Fails 90% Of The Time—And Covers It Up – View from the Wing
- American Airlines Landline: Bottom Line Review – Frequent Miler
Up for more travel news? You might like our last recap post – What’s Happening to the Daily Getaways 2025 Program
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You’re not allowed to deface your passport? Who knew?
As to the TSA link, Gary is very much a purist in his hatred for bare feet on a flight and the TSA. After reading several dozen blog entries where he complains about the TSA he still has yet to suggest viable alternatives. That’s just complaining for the sake of complaining. I’ve suggested a new Inspector General to usher in needed changes but they’d only get fired in a week these days as unnecessary government oversight.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the US citizen whose US passport was rejected at WAW border control was an ethnic minority.
WAW passport control has an extensive history of being the most racist passport control toward US citizens of any Schengen airport with two or more daily flights to the US.
Over the years, I have repeatedly seen them harass US citizens over anything and nothing.
This incident happened at Krakow, not Warsaw.
Was the traveling American woman the one who wrote the handwritten notes under the visa stamps on the visa pages in her passport? Perhaps, but I’ve seen other passports where something similar was done by foreign government employees handling the passports.