- CNN exclusive: TSA considering eliminating screening at smaller airports. I mean either the screening works and is necessary or it doesn’t and it’s a waste of money. I don’t really see how you can eliminate the risk involved just because the planes are smaller.
- You no longer need a card to get cash from nearly every Chase ATM by Business Insider. I’m a fan of this as long as it’s done well and secure.
- Mexico plane crash: All 103 people on board survive by BBC News. Incredible there were no fatalities.
- Points-Obsessed Travelers Are Terrified of Losing Perks by Bloomberg. They describe manufactured spending as ‘Think of it as money laundering but with free breakfasts. (This tactic is common but may be illegal in some cases.)’. In terms of the last point, [citation needed]. Not going to link directly, but I’m sure you can find it if you really want.
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I see the TSA story is bullying the comments section, but I have words about this Chase ATM bullshit.
I was excited to see this feature, but adding my Chase ATM card to my Google Pay wouldn’t work. I spent a while on the phone with Chase support and they obviously have no clue how Google Pay works or why it won’t add their card.
I did find success adding my alternate Chase business ATM card to Google Pay. But it looks as if using it at the ATM is impossible anyway as my phone doesn’t have NFC. Not all phones do, but Chase just leaves that part out that their technology relies on NFC. Would have been great to know that before spending so much time trying to set it up. I thought it might show a 3D barcode on the phone to scan, perhaps, like some virtual gift cards do. Nope.
Go look at the cardless page Chase has set up. The URL has NFC in it, but yet if you CTRL+F through the page, you’ll see no mention of NFC or that your phone needs this technology to work. Typical big banking not understanding anything about tech.
https://www.chase.com/digital/atms/cardless-nfc
Aha. Thanks for the NFC info. My cheap Android phone doesn’t do NFC either. Many companies like to assume everybody has expensive Samsung and Apple phones.
For those not wanting to read the article: Passengers would be screened at the next airport if they have connecting flights.
I’m not exactly sure how they would ensure this happens, But I suppose they could come up with something. A similar thing I have encountered is if you take the wrong train or want to visit the Priority Club Lounge at Orlando Airport (MCO) Terminal A, you have to repass through security. Security says it’s because it’s the “International flight” section of the airport. Both trains are in secure locations past security and you do not need to leave the secure location to walk from one train to the other. – Security ensures all passengers arriving from that train exits the terminal, and cannot go get on the other train.
– I guess some bigger airports already have Terminals or areas that are “more secure than others.”
I agree with DoCs statement. Doing away with security due to small planes causing less damage is poor judgement.
Do you guys know if non-chase cards can be used for cardless transactions with Chase ATMS?
Bloomberg link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-01/the-marriott-starwood-merger-puts-a-points-program-to-the-test
Haha, I purposefully didn’t post it but I guess it being in the comments is ok
Bloomberg: Think of it as journalism but without the effort
Very happy to see Chase joining WF in cardless atm capabilities!
Wow. TSA has the money for Quiet Skies (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/30/lawmakers-demand-answers-quiet-skies-surveillance-program-after-globe-report/tQa7Y5SHFJEbo2z1RHwbYM/story.html), but screening planes with 60 or fewer passengers is not cost efficient enough.
A firewall that is only set up on some of the external nodes is worthless.
+1
It actually makes sense. Simple cost-benefit analysis. If we wanted to ELIMINATE risks, we could stop all commercial flights, but we wouldn’t for obvious reasons. A risk is worth taking, if either it is small or the benefit is large. Everything in relative terms, of course.
This
Said it before I could!
Sure, but removing screening from small airports surely increases the risks at those airports dramatically. Unless of course TSA doesn’t actually do anything to reduce the risk of attack, in which case why not remove it from all airports?
Personally, I don’t mind the screening. It is the lack of information on wait time causes inconvenience. Somedays, I reach the airport 2 hours before dept. and find the TSA lines to be empty. On unfortunate days, I rush after work to reach the airport 1.5 hours before dept and find the TSA queues to be an hour long.
If TSA scans the boarding pass at the start of the line and scans again closer to the end of the line (which they already do), they can calculate the wait time and they can display it on their website or an app. Once they have enough data, they can predict the expected wait time.
The TSA does report wait times. See: https://www.tsa.gov/mobile
Thanks. Tried it. Unreliable at least for my home airport.
1. There are two terminals at my home airport which are a few miles apart. The app doesn’t display the wait times individually for the terminals.
2. It’s been a while since I tried it. It just had a bar graph displaying if the wait is long or short. It did not show the wait time in hours.