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WIKILEAKS: CIA Travel Advice To Operatives – How To Survive Secondary Screening Without Blowing Your CIA Cover

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– CIA Travel Advice to Operatives – Press Release (WikiLeaks, Dec 21, 2014):

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Today, 21 December 2014, WikiLeaks releases two classified documents by a previously undisclosed CIA office detailing how to maintain cover while travelling through airports using false ID – including during operations to infiltrate the European Union and the Schengen passport control system. This is the second release within WikiLeaks’ CIA Series, which will continue in the new year.

The two classified documents aim to assist CIA undercover officials to circumvent these systems around the world. They detail border-crossing and visa regulations, the scope and content of electronic systems, border guard protocols and procedures for secondary screenings. The documents show that the CIA has developed an extreme concern over how biometric databases will put CIA clandestine operations at risk – databases other parts of the US government made prevalent post-9/11.

How to Survive Secondary Screening without Blowing your CIA Cover

The CIA manual “Surviving Secondary”, dated 21 September 2011, details what happens in an airport secondary screening in different airports around the world and how to pass as a CIA undercover operative while preserving one’s cover. Among the reasons for why secondary screening would occur are: if the traveller is on a watchlist (noting that watchlists can often contain details of intelligence officials); or is found with contraband; or “because the inspector suspects that something about the traveler is not right”.

Read moreWIKILEAKS: CIA Travel Advice To Operatives – How To Survive Secondary Screening Without Blowing Your CIA Cover

Airplanes could be taken over through inflight entertainment systems, hacker claims

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– Airplanes could be taken over through inflight entertainment systems, hacker claims (RT, Aug 4, 2014):

A security researcher says that ships, aircraft and industrial facilities are all at risk of being compromised — perhaps with catastrophic results — and intends to explain how at a major hacker conference this week.

Ruben Santamarta, a 32-year-old consultant for cyber security firm IOActive, is expected to present a talk titled “SATCOM Terminals: Hacking by Air, Sea and Land” on Thursday at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, and during it he plans to demonstrate how satellite communications systems used by the likes of commercial airliners and oil rigs alike can be infiltrated by malicious actors and altered to let unauthorized attackers take control.

Read moreAirplanes could be taken over through inflight entertainment systems, hacker claims

US Homeland Security crackdown adds to cabin baggage confusion for transatlantic flight passengers

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–  US Homeland Security crackdown adds to cabin baggage confusion for transatlantic flight passengers (Independent, July 8, 2014):

Passengers with transatlantic flights on several airlines face confusion over new rules on electronic equipment.

The US Department of Homeland Security insists that passengers boarding America-bound jets in the UK have all their electronic equipment checked, and specifies that devices that cannot be powered up must not travel with the passenger. But confusion reigns about what happens to passengers carrying electronic gear with flat batteries.

Read moreUS Homeland Security crackdown adds to cabin baggage confusion for transatlantic flight passengers

Aerotoxic Syndrome: Neurotoxins In An Airplane – Nervengift Im Flugzeug (WDR – Documentary)

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Many, many seemingly physically fit people had to be carried out of  airplanes, especailly after long-distant flights, because their body failed them and they could not walk anymore.

If ever something like that happens to somebody you know, recommend that they immediately undergo a blood purification process.

Many pilots and stewardesses know this and recommend blood purification to the victims of the aeorotoxic syndrome.

Many do it as a preventive measure themselves.

Don’t rely just on the treatment by doctors. They usually do not know what to do.

I highly recommend to mimimize your flights and if you can avoid flying altogether, especially since Fukushima.


Added: Jul 9, 2014

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WDR’s Nervengift im Flugzeug – report on aerotoxic syndrome, 07/07/2014

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Boeing 767 & Airbus A340 Battle For The Same Airspace – Stunning Near Miss On Barcelona Runway (Video)

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– Caught On Tape – Stunning Near Miss On Barcelona Runway (ZeroHedge, July 7, 2014):

Boeing has had a tough week or two – the scandal over Ex-Im bank – its cheap funding source of competitive advantage, this weekend’s train derailment of Boeing fuselages, and now, in Barcelona, a 767 and an Airbus A340 battle for the same airspace coming within a few hundred feet of total carnage.

As The Daily Mail reports,

The dramatic moment two planes almost collided on a runway in Barcelona has been captured on camera.

The footage reveals the near-miss between a Boeing 767 from Russian airline Utair and an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 at El Prat Airport in Spain.

It shows the Boeing coming in to land on the runway, making its final approach, as the Airbus, getting ready for a flight to Buenos Aires, taxis across its path.

The Boeing is forced to abort the landing, with the pilot carrying out an emergency ‘go-around’ procedure.

Read moreBoeing 767 & Airbus A340 Battle For The Same Airspace – Stunning Near Miss On Barcelona Runway (Video)

Airline Inflation Takes Off: Air Fare Prices Soar At 97% Annualized Rate, Highest Since 1999

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–  Airline Inflation Takes Off: Air Fare Prices Soar At 97% Annualized Rate, Highest Since 1999 (ZeroHedge, June 23, 2014):

Everyone knows that assorted food prices – most notably various meats such as beef and pork – have never been higher, but to Janet Yellen that’s just noise. After all, why worry about food inflation or the highest gas prices on this day in the year with the exception of 2008 of course, when one can just keep buying ever (hedonically) cheaper plasma TVs (although unclear where said TVs would be put with rent inflation also off the charts). So perhaps the thinking is that the average American can just hop on a plane and go to where the prices are lower? Not so fast.

According to the latest CPI report, the May surge in airfare prices was so dramatic and unexpected, that on a compounded annualized basis (CAGR), the May surge in airline fares was a whopping 97%: the highest since 1999, and the third highest ever.

Read moreAirline Inflation Takes Off: Air Fare Prices Soar At 97% Annualized Rate, Highest Since 1999

‘Unprecedented’: 13 Aircraft Mysteriously Disappear From Radars In Heart Of Europe

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– ‘Unprecedented’: 13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe (RT, June 12, 2014):

A total of 13 aircraft suddenly vanished off radars for about 25 minutes on two occasions over Austria and neighboring countries, Austria’s flight safety monitor said, calling for an EU probe into the “unprecedented” incidents.

The flights vanished from air traffic controllers’ screens in Austria on June 5 and June 10 for 25 minutes each time, Marcus Pohanka of Austro Control – Austria’s flight safety organization – said Thursday.

Air traffic control in neighboring regions of Germany and the Czech Republic also reported similar problems.

Read more‘Unprecedented’: 13 Aircraft Mysteriously Disappear From Radars In Heart Of Europe

Friday Humor: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

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– Friday humor: you can’t make this stuff up (Sovereign Man, May 2, 2014):

20 years in prison.

That’s the penalty you could face for travelling to a country the President has labelled to be “of concern”.

Sending any form of monetary assistance to people in the country merits further steep penalties.

Read moreFriday Humor: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

French mother, 33, denied access to the United States for family holiday because ‘the name on her passport sounds like Al-Qaeda’

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– French mother, 33, denied access to the United States for family holiday because ‘the name on her passport sounds like Al Qaeda’ (Daily Mail, April 26, 2014):

A young French mother who was flying to New York via Switzerland for a holiday with her husband and two children was told she not allowed entry to the United States, seemingly because her name sounds suspiciously like Al Qaeda.

Aida Alic arrived with her family at Geneva airport on Wednesday preparing to board a connection to JFK.

However she was told by Swiss Airlines officials that her access to the country had been denied.

Read moreFrench mother, 33, denied access to the United States for family holiday because ‘the name on her passport sounds like Al-Qaeda’

No-Fly List Used By FBI To Coerce Muslims Into Informers, Lawsuit Claims

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Related info:

– After Seven Years, Exactly One Person Gets Off The Government No-Fly List

Case highlights plight of people wrongfully added to database who face lengthy, secretive process to clear their names

No-fly list used by FBI to coerce Muslims into informing, lawsuit claims
Innocent people are being put on the no-fly list as coercion or punishment by the FBI, a lawsuit alleges. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

– No-fly list used by FBI to coerce Muslims into informing, lawsuit claims (Guardian, April 23, 2014):

Naveed Shinwari hasn’t seen his wife in 26 months. He suspects it’s because he refused to become an informant for the FBI.

In February 2012 Shinwari, who has lived in the US since he was 14, flew to Afghanistan to get married. He says that before he could get home to Omaha, Nebraska, he was twice detained and questioned by FBI agents who wanted to know if he knew anything about national security threats. A third FBI visit followed when he got home.

Read moreNo-Fly List Used By FBI To Coerce Muslims Into Informers, Lawsuit Claims

Flight 370 Reality Check: A Boeing 777 Doesn’t Disappear Unless Governments Want It To Disappear

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– Flight 370 reality check: A Boeing 777 doesn’t disappear unless governments want it to disappear (Natural News, March 30, 2014):

As the conventional news coverage of Flight 370 becomes increasingly delusional and detached from reality, for the sake of all those families and loved ones still suffering I thought it important to publish a reality check that can help bring the discussion back to some common sense.

Let’s cover five indisputable facts about governments, radar and aircraft:

Read moreFlight 370 Reality Check: A Boeing 777 Doesn’t Disappear Unless Governments Want It To Disappear

US Issues Travel Alert For Russia, Warns Of ‘Potential Military Clashes (Either Accidental Or Intentional)’

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Related info:

– ‘Operation Independence’: Anonymous Exposes False Flag & US Invasion Plans In Ukraine

– Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff: US Caught Planning Terror Attacks In Ukraine

– Hacked Email From U.S. Army Attache In Ukraine – For False Flags To Occur So U.S. Can Take Military Action Against Russia

– US Issues Travel Alert For Russia, Warns Of “Potential Military Clashes (Either Accidental Or Intentional)” (Zerohedge, March 14, 2014):

Just out from the State Department, which in the aftermath of the most recent failure by John Kerry to resolve the Ukraine situation, appears to be escalating to populism and engaging the general public. The best part in the warning is the following clarification: “all U.S. citizens located in or considering travel to the border region, specifically the regions bordering Ukraine in Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, and Rostov Oblasts and Krasnodar Krai, should be aware of the potential for escalation of tensions, military clashes (either accidental or intentional).” Somehow we have a feeling we may be seeing a spike in “accidental military clashes” over the next week.

From the State Department:

Russian Federation Travel Alert – Events in Ukraine

The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens in Russia to the ongoing tensions in Ukraine and the potential for increased public demonstrations and anti-American actions in Russia in connection with Russian actions in the Crimea.  The Department of State also alerts U.S. citizens in Russia to the heightened military presence and on-going military exercises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation along the border region with Ukraine.  This Travel Alert expires on June 13, 2014.  The Department of State strongly recommends that all U.S. citizens residing or traveling abroad enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) in order to receive pertinent safety and security information.

Read moreUS Issues Travel Alert For Russia, Warns Of ‘Potential Military Clashes (Either Accidental Or Intentional)’

Ryanair Passengers Call Police During Eleven Hour Delay As They Demand ‘Food, Water And The Right To Leave The Aircraft’

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– Mutiny at the airport: Passengers stranded without food and drink in 11-hour delay call police onto plane (Daily Mail, Feb 21, 2014):

  • Passengers called police after being sat on the plane for three hours
  • Ryanair said they couldn’t let them into the terminal because it was locked
  • The airline said the captain also called police for assistance getting the passengers back into the building
  • They were finally allowed off at 3.45am – but had to board the flight again two hours later when they faced another two hour delay
  • Ryanair flight from Stansted to Porto was supposed to take off at 8.30pm
  • However, it eventually took off at around 8am the following morning
  • Incident happened after loudmouth businessman Michael O’Leary pledged to clean up the airline’s act and ‘stop p****** people off unnecessarily’

Furious passengers stranded on a Ryanair flight called police from the tarmac after being left for hours without food or drink.

More than 100 travellers, including children, had already faced a long wait to board the delayed flight from Stansted to Porto in Portugal. Three hours later, the plane was still on the ground.

Read moreRyanair Passengers Call Police During Eleven Hour Delay As They Demand ‘Food, Water And The Right To Leave The Aircraft’

TSA Security Checks Now Start Long Before You Fly

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– Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly (New York Times, Oct 21, 2013):

The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.

While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers’ data for domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied only to individuals entering the United States.

Read moreTSA Security Checks Now Start Long Before You Fly

George Bush Intercontinental Airport: TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For JOKING About Security

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– TSA loudspeakers threaten travelers with arrest for joking about security (Police State USA, Oct 10, 2013):

HOUSTON, TX — Travelers are reporting threatening messages coming from the loudspeakers of the Travel Security Administration.  The TSA has been broadcasting warnings that people will be arrested for making jokes in the presence of the infamous federal checkpoint agents.  Policestateusa.com has obtained exclusive audio of the threats.

Matt Miller said on the morning of September 20th, during his return trip from Colorado to Florida, he spent a few hours in Houston waiting for a connecting flight.   Sitting at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, he repeatedly heard a TSA audio message on the intercom that disturbed him.

“…You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest.”

Miller documented the message with an audio recording via his cell phone and sent it to us.

Read moreGeorge Bush Intercontinental Airport: TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For JOKING About Security

‘Pilot X’: San Francisco Jetliner Crash Caused By Airlines Turning Pilots Into ‘Computer Geeks Who Can’t Fly’

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– Exclusive: San Francisco jetliner crash caused by airlines turning pilots into ‘computer geeks who can’t fly’ says commercial pilot (Natural News, July 10, 2013):

When flight 214 crashed last week at the San Francisco airport, killing two people and injuring dozens, many people were in a state of disbelief. How could a Boeing 777 — the “Titanic” of commercial airliners — be piloted so carelessly that the pilot seemingly flew it into the seawall and caused the accident?

But that’s the problem, you see: There are no more pilots flying these planes. The real pilots have nearly all retired, leaving a bunch of “computer geeks” who have almost no flying skills and only know how to operate the computerized, automated flight equipment which is subject to catastrophic failure.

That’s what “Pilot X” told me in a phone interview. His identity is being secret for his own protection, but he recently retired from over two decades of flying Boeing’s largest aircraft for major U.S. airlines. He has received more actual flight time than 99% of today’s active commercial pilots, and he’s an expert in Boeing flight automation equipment. His testimony, below, reveals insider details that only a real commercial pilot would know.

Airlines are trying to dumb down the pilots

Read more‘Pilot X’: San Francisco Jetliner Crash Caused By Airlines Turning Pilots Into ‘Computer Geeks Who Can’t Fly’

Saudi Man Arrested At Detroit Airport For Owning Pressure Cooker

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– Saudi Man Arrested At Detroit Airport For Owning Pressure Cooker (ZeroHedge, May 13, 2013):

Meet the new “WMD” whose merest ownership is sufficient to get you arrested. That, and having an Arabic sounding name of course.

From (the soon to be broke?) Detroit News:

Man from Saudi Arabia arrested at Detroit airport with pressure cooker

Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.

Read moreSaudi Man Arrested At Detroit Airport For Owning Pressure Cooker

UNITED-Continental Airline Pilots Forced To Fly With As Little As 3 Hours’ Sleep, ‘Worked Until We Drop’

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– NaturalNews exclusive: UNITED-Continental airline pilots forced to fly with as little as 3 hours’ sleep, ‘worked until we drop’ (Natural News, Aug 14, 2012):

Whistleblower pilots flying for United / Continental airlines warn that they are being “worked until we drop,” forced to pilot consecutive long-distance flights with as little as three hours’ sleep. In a series of secret meetings with NaturalNews, three United / Continental pilots described the “utter hell” they are being put through:”We are being worked until we drop,” one pilot to me in a recent face-to-face meeting in Texas. “United-Continental is flying us in violation of FAA legal requirements. Pilot fatigue is at red alert levels. This is an accident waiting to happen.”

The FAA requires pilots to have at least 8 hours of rest in any given 24-hour period. From the FAA’s website:

…a pilot is not allowed to accept, nor is an airline allowed to assign, a flight if the pilot has not has at least eight continuous hours of rest during the 24-hour period. In other words, the pilot needs to be able to look back in any preceding 24-hour period and find that he/she has had an opportunity for at least eight hours of rest. If a pilot’s actual rest is less than nine hours in the 24-hour period, the next rest period must be lengthened to provide for the appropriate compensatory rest.

But NaturalNews was told that United-Continental is operating in blatant violation of this rule. One pilot explained to me, in detail:

Read moreUNITED-Continental Airline Pilots Forced To Fly With As Little As 3 Hours’ Sleep, ‘Worked Until We Drop’

‘Checkpoint Of The Future’ Takes Shape At Texas Airport

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– ‘Checkpoint of the future’ takes shape at Texas airport (USA Today, June 20, 2012):

DALLAS – At a terminal being renovated here at Love Field, contractors are installing 500 high-definition security cameras sharp enough to read an auto license plate or a logo on a shirt.

The cameras, capable of tracking passengers from the parking garage to gates to the tarmac, are a key first step in creating what the airline industry would like to see at airports worldwide: a security apparatus that would scrutinize passengers more thoroughly, but less intrusively, and in faster fashion than now.

It’s part of what the International Air Transport Association, or IATA, which represents airlines globally, calls “the checkpoint of the future.”

The goal is for fliers to move almost non-stop through security from the curb to the gate, in contrast to repeated security stops and logjams at checkpoints.

After checking their luggage, passengers would identify themselves not with driver’s licenses and paper boarding passes, but by scanning fingerprints or irises to prove they have an electronic ticket.

Passengers would walk with their carry-ons through a screening tunnel, where they’d undergo electronic scrutiny — replacing what now happens at as many as three different stops as they’re scanned for metal objects, non-metallic items and explosives.

Passengers would no longer have to empty carry-ons of liquids and laptops before putting them on conveyor belts for X-ray scans. They could keep their belts and shoes on. They could avoid a backlog at full-body scanners and a finger swab for explosive residue.

Read more‘Checkpoint Of The Future’ Takes Shape At Texas Airport

AND NOW … ‘TRAVEL CONTROLS’: ‘EU: Movement Of Money, People Can Be Limited’ (AP)

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See also:

– AND NOW: ‘Eurozone Discussed CAPITAL CONTROLS If Greek Exits Euro’ (Reuters)

– EU: movement of money, people can be limited (AP, June 12, 2012):

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has been providing legal advice to others who are considering possible scenarios should Greece leave the euro, a European Union spokesman said.

Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, legally, limits could be imposed on movement of people and money across national borders within the EU if it’s necessary to protect public order or public security — but not on economic grounds.

“Some people are working on scenarios,” he said, but refused to confirm or identify which organizations and people were working on them.

Hate Full-Body Scanners, Pat-Downs And Slow Going At TSA Airport Security Screening Checkpoints? For $100 The TSA Airport Nightmare!

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– $100 to Fly Through the Airport (Wall Street Journal, Mar 19, 2012):

Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle.

The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called “Precheck.” It has special lanes for background-checked travelers, who can keep their shoes, belt and jacket on, leave laptops and liquids in carry-on bags and walk through a metal detector rather than a full-body scan. The process, now at two airlines and nine airports, is much like how screenings worked before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Read moreHate Full-Body Scanners, Pat-Downs And Slow Going At TSA Airport Security Screening Checkpoints? For $100 The TSA Airport Nightmare!

AND NOW: British Travellers Need U.S. Regime’s Permission To Board Flights To Canada, Mexico And Cuba

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– Planning a trip to Canada or the Caribbean? US Immigration may have other ideas… (Independent, Mar 26, 2012):

New security checks are already in place – even for flights hundreds of miles from American airspace

One million British travellers planning to fly to Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico this year face the risk of being turned away at the airport – at the insistence of the US Department of Homeland Security.

New rules require British Airways and other airlines flying to certain airports outside America to submit passengers’ personal data to US authorities. The information is checked against a “No Fly” list containing tens of thousands of names. Even if the flight plan steers well clear of US territory, travellers whom the Americans regard as suspicious will be denied boarding.

Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, told The Independent: “The concern by the US for its own security is entirely understandable, but it seems to me it’s a whole different issue that American wishes should determine the rights and choices of people travelling between two countries neither of which is the US.”

For several years, every US-bound passenger has had to provide Advance Passenger Information (API) before departure. Washington has extended the obligation to air routes that over-fly US airspace, such as Heathrow to Mexico City or Gatwick to Havana.

Now the US is demanding passengers’ full names, dates of birth and gender from airlines, at least 72 hour before departure from the UK to Canada. The initial requirement is for flights to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the Nova Scotia capital, Halifax – 150 miles from the nearest US territory. A similar stipulation is expected soon for the main airports in western Canada, Vancouver and Calgary.

Any passenger who refuses to comply will be denied boarding. Those who do supply details may find their trip could be abruptly cancelled by the Department of Homeland Security, which says it will “ake boarding pass determinations up until the time a flight leaves the gate … If a passenger successfully obtains a boarding pass, his/her name is not on the No Fly list.” In other words, travellers cannot find out whether they will be accepted on board until they reach the airport.

Read moreAND NOW: British Travellers Need U.S. Regime’s Permission To Board Flights To Canada, Mexico And Cuba