Babies on the No-Fly List
How do the ticket agents keep a straight face when stopping parents from boarding a plane with an 11-month old because the baby's name matches one on the no-fly list? If we ever needed more reasons that these lists are feel-good measures that don't make us any safer, this article supplies it.
The TSA supposedly instructs ticket agents not to deny boarding to children. It happens anyway.
The TSA has a "passenger ombudsman" who will investigate individual claims from passengers who say they are mistakenly on the lists. TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark said 89 children have submitted their names to the ombudsman. Of those, 14 are under the age of 2.
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