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Category Archives: Travel Security

MarriottTravel Security

“It Was Sheer Terror!” Marriott Handed Over Room Key To Predator Who Claimed To Be Guest’s Husband

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 17, 2025April 17, 2025 21 Comments
a lobby with a large round counter and a large round chair

A doctor has shared a harrowing story, claiming that Marriott handed over a room key to access her room to a predator who claimed to be her husband. Marriott Gave Room Key To Predator Who Claimed To Be Guest’s...

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Travel SecurityTravel Technology

SIM Swapped: What Is It, And What I Did About It

Kyle Stewart Posted onSeptember 24, 2023September 24, 2023 15 Comments
SIM swap

While traveling in the Bahamas this week, I was the victim of sim swapping. What is it and what did I do about it? If you are considering booking travel or signing up for a new credit card please click here. Both...

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Travel Security

Airline Pilot Turns Fear Into Profit

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 13, 2023July 13, 2023 7 Comments
Dial A Pilot

Are you afraid to fly? A commercial pilot is happy to hold your hand through a consultative phone call. But have your credit card ready. Dial A Pilot: Airline Pilot Offers $50 Phone Call To Help Calm Your Fears...

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Travel Security

Is It Really The Masks? The Root Cause Of Airplane Misconduct

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 12, 2021November 14, 2023 31 Comments
a woman wearing a mask

Frequent readers of Live and Let’s Fly would be forgiven for thinking this luxury + adventure travel blog has turned into a tabloid covering daily onboard antics of poorly-behaved passengers on commercial flights. But while we go where the...

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Travel Security

Luggage Thief Strikes Again In Atlanta Airport – Watch Your Bags!

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 10, 2021November 14, 2023 14 Comments
a man in a white shirt

A luggage thief with a rap sheet a mile long has been apprehended after brazenly stealing two bags from a baggage carousel at Atlanta Airport. Atlanta Luggage Thief Apprehended…Again Robert Allen Grimes is not the sharpest knife in the...

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Travel Security

Another Return To Normal: Pre-Flight Safety Demos

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 1, 2021 3 Comments
Pre-Flight Safety Demos

If you’ve watched manual safety demonstrations over the last year prior to the departure of your flight, you may have noticed it was more abbreviated than prior to the pandemic. Not anymore, as an FAA exemption just expired. Pre-Flight...

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Travel Security

Passenger Makes Bomb Threat On United Airlines 787-10

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 10, 2020August 10, 2020 2 Comments
United Bomb Threat

Must we take a bomb threat seriously when we have every reason to believe that the it is a false alarm? Onboard an airplane, I’d say the answer must be yes. That doesn’t mean we must abrogate common sense, though....

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IsraelTravel Security

Geopolitics Complicates My Trip To Israel

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 4, 2020January 4, 2020 27 Comments
Safe To Visit Israel 2020

A U.S. airstrike in Iraq has complicated my plans to take my family to Israel tomorrow. Still, I don’t plan on suspending my trip. Yesterday, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was blown up via a U.S. airstrike while leaving Baghdad International...

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NewsTravel Security

Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Strikes Again!

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 17, 2019October 17, 2019 14 Comments
Marilyn Hartman 2019 Arrest cover

Serial stowaway and folk hero Marilyn Hartman is losing her touch. She didn’t even make it past the TSA checkpoint in her latest caper. I’m just going out on limb, but I think Hartman was emboldened by the recent...

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NewsTravel Security

How Airport Security May Soon Become Much Easier

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 6, 2019November 14, 2023 12 Comments
Airport Computed Tomography Technology

The widespread use of new technology promises to speed up airport security lines by no longer requiring that laptops or liquids be removed from carry-on bags. It has now been 13 years since the carry-on liquid ban went into...

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Travel Security

United Airlines Further Disables A Disabled Camera

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 30, 2019November 14, 2023 2 Comments
a room with rows of monitors

You need not worry about flight attendants or airline executives surreptitiously recording you while you eat dinner or sleep in your seat…well, at least using IFE cameras. There has been a surprising outpour of fear and anger over the...

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Travel Security

Hey Guys, See Something? Say Something. (Airplane Edition)

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 27, 2019November 14, 2023 13 Comments
a woman looking out of an airplane window

What would it take to get you to intervene when a creep hassles another passenger, especially a female teenager? Joanna Chiu, bureau chief for the Toronto Star, witnessed something quite dismaying on a recent late-night domestic flight in Canada....

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A380British AirwaysLos Angeles LAXLufthansaTravel SecurityTSA

Lufthansa Boards A380 in 20 Minutes with Biometric Boarding

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 20, 2018November 14, 2023 9 Comments
a machine with a red x on it

The future of travel: approach the gate, scan your face, board the aircraft. This is not some dystopian world or sci-fi movie. This is how Lufthansa is now boarding flights at Los Angeles International Airport. Lufthansa has rolled out...

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Travel Security

New Airport Security Measures: Business as Usual

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 24, 2017November 14, 2023 1 Comment
heightened security USA flights

Last month I wrote about the planned introduction of new security protocols on all USA-bound flights. The new guidelines were not specific, but included “heightened screening of personal electronic devices”. How does that look in practice? If my flight from...

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emiratesTravel SecurityWeekend Digest

Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: July 23, 2017

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 23, 2017November 14, 2023 Leave a Comment
Israel Airport Security

Hello from Los Angeles. So much for my extended vacation in Germany… I had to fly home yesterday afternoon for a series of meetings over the next few days on a matter totally unrelated to the blog or Award Expert....

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Law In TravelTravel Security

My Horrific Security Experience at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV)

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 19, 2017November 14, 2023 112 Comments
Tel Aviv Airport Security Horror Story

I alluded to it offhandedly in a recent post on United catering out of Tel Aviv, but based upon the comments it drew I want to revisit the topic directly. I recently had an incredibly invasive security experience in Tel...

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