his just in: According to USA Today, the TSA has announced that they are running a pilot program at Dallas/Ft. Worth and Detroit airports to test the feasibility of allowing non-passengers through security.

Not the real kind, the kind that come and spend their dollars in Rio and Buzios, but rather the new slasher movie about a group of hot-but-dumb Yanks who get carved up by organ harvesters on a trip to the Amazon.

Remember trains? We do still have them in the US of A. Despite the constant scheduling problems and crippled infrastructure, I can’t help but root for Amtrak for hanging on in the face of our relentless car culture.

Perhaps to give you something to think about during the hours you will spend at the airport if you’re flying during the holidays, USA Today has published a dubious list of “Great Airport Moments in Film.”

Travelistic got a nod from USA Today in today’s issue, in a piece rounding up travel video online. Check us out in the top spot of their chart detailing the options!

It doesn’t come as much of a shock, after the great foiled-terror-plot/checked-luggage crisis of two months ago, that August has earned the record for the greatest number of “mishandled�? bags in four weeks.

Good news today for business travelers and others who loathe the idea of arriving at their destination without all-important toiletries.

s you might have read, Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was ousted yesterday by the Thai military in what is thus far a bloodless coup.

The UK has eased it’s clampdown on hand baggage somewhat since the news of last week’s terror plot, with travelers again allowed to carry laptops, phones and ipods, and solid, but not liquid or paste, toiletries. The permissible size of a carry-on, th

According to a recent USA Today article, there’s a new breed of backpacker on the loose: the flashpacker. Sounds a bit dirty for America’s squeaky clean broadsheet, doesn’t it?