{"id":566,"date":"2007-01-11T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/flying-the-friendly-skies\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T18:36:32","slug":"flying-the-friendly-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/flying-the-friendly-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying The Friendly Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Rosner has a great riff on security at airports in his Working Wounded blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/CareerManagement\/story?id=2782529&#038;page=1&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">Biz Travel Safety<\/a>. To be clear, he is all for safe airline travel and even goes so far as to thank the screeners when he gets plucked from the line for an additional screening. I laughed at that line since I am invariably plucked from the line no matter what airport I am at (my wife laughs every time).<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example, on my most recent flight I had my baggie full of gels and liquids out and ready to show anyone who wanted to know the secret for my youthful appearance. A TSA staffer scrutinized the bag. She informed me that she&#8217;d have to empty one of my bottles because, she explained, they only allowed gels and liquids in their original containers no camping-style plain plastic bottles are allowed. She methodically emptied out my soap from its container. Apparently terrorists have not figured out how to empty shampoo bottles to put something more dangerous inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/CareerManagement\/story?id=2782529&#038;page=1&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing<\/a> &#8211; it is quite entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Rosner has a great riff on security at airports in his Working Wounded blog &#8211; Biz Travel Safety. To be clear, he is all for safe airline travel and even goes so far as to thank the screeners when he gets plucked from the line for an additional screening. I laughed at that line since I am invariably plucked from the line no matter what airport I am at (my wife laughs every time). An excerpt: For example, on my most recent flight I had my baggie full of gels and liquids out and ready to show anyone who wanted to know the secret for my youthful appearance. A&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/flying-the-friendly-skies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-98","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1861,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/travel-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":566,"position":0},"title":"Travel Time","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This economy has caused many companies to limit travel and rightly so.\u00a0 Discretionary travel is restricted.\u00a0 However, salespeople still need to get on the road and visit customers even if it is just across town.\u00a0 National and international travel is still needed too. 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