A Briggs Passport & Visa Expeditors

It’s a small achievement, but it is just the first of thousands of automatic passport readers at borders around the world.

The idea is to replace immigration officers at the border. You would simply scan your own passport and it checks your facial features and your iris to ascertain if the passport holder is the same person appearing at the border. Sort of like checking yourself out at Walmart.

It’ll be faster and safer. Another benefit of technology. Also, it may take a few hours longer to issue an expedited passports when these passports are issued by all countries.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

It’s a small achievement, but it is just the first of thousands of automatic passport readers at borders around the world.

The idea is to replace immigration officers at the border. You would simply scan your own passport and it checks your facial features and your iris to ascertain if the passport holder is the same person appearing at the border. Sort of like checking yourself out at Walmart.

It’ll be faster and safer. Another benefit of technology. Also, it may take a few hours longer to issue an expedited passports when these passports are issued by all countries.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

Well, this is not good news! TSA security screeners failed at two busy U.S. airports to find fake bombs hidden in the gear or clothes of undercover agents in 60% of tests. Los Angeles did even worse — they didn’t find the bombs in 75% of the cases.

TSA is determined to improve and we think they will. After all, the tests were conducted by the same agency that regulates TSA. Good for them for testing this and finding the weak link. Now go to work and protect us and make the taxpayers investment in TSA a good one.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

Well, this is not good news! TSA security screeners failed at two busy U.S. airports to find fake bombs hidden in the gear or clothes of undercover agents in 60% of tests. Los Angeles did even worse — they didn’t find the bombs in 75% of the cases.

TSA is determined to improve and we think they will. After all, the tests were conducted by the same agency that regulates TSA. Good for them for testing this and finding the weak link. Now go to work and protect us and make the taxpayers investment in TSA a good one.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

Alaska Airlines will be the first airline to test in-flight Internet service beginning next spring on one Boeing 737. During the test, travelers with Wi-Fi devices can connect to the service via hotspots in the cabin. Alaska hasn’t said how it will charge for the service

An antenna on the top of the plane will communicate with a satellite to make the Internet connection for the plane. A company, AirCell, is planning to build cellular towers throughout the 48 states to transmit signals to aircraft when the service goes national, which we think it will for sure in the next few years.

This is going to happen. The technology has to be worked out to ensure it is safe, and then they must figure out how to make money doing it, and then the service will quickly become universal and be taken for granted within a year or two.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

Forrester Research, a leading Internet research company, reports the number of travelers using the Internet is declining. We see this a typical of any hot new service: every body jumps on board and produces huge jumps and then it matures and growth slows and thens stops.

Does this mean it’s over? No. It’s maturing and the smart companies that offer good customer service will continue to grow. Remember, there’s always room at the top.

The decline Forrester reports is 9% from 2005 to 2007. The reason in our opinion: difficulty buying online; navigating websites; airline sites’ terms and conditions for rates; bad experiences; and smart moves by travel agencies and airlines to get customers to book by telephone.

Stay tuned. Whatever happens to make it better, the buy will benefit.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.

Alaska Airlines will be the first airline to test in-flight Internet service beginning next spring on one Boeing 737. During the test, travelers with Wi-Fi devices can connect to the service via hotspots in the cabin. Alaska hasn’t said how it will charge for the service

An antenna on the top of the plane will communicate with a satellite to make the Internet connection for the plane. A company, AirCell, is planning to build cellular towers throughout the 48 states to transmit signals to aircraft when the service goes national, which we think it will for sure in the next few years.

This is going to happen. The technology has to be worked out to ensure it is safe, and then they must figure out how to make money doing it, and then the service will quickly become universal and be taken for granted within a year or two.

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Planning a trip? Is your passport up to date? Click here to order a visa and check the requirements for entry.