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Airport Travel: Does Hysterical Signage Make Us Safer?
Despite the variety of signs which have sprung up around security checkpoints in the past five years about your coat, shoes and electronic devices, it seems like there's always a new instruction that has been literally tacked on to the existing rules and regulations. Passive Aggressive Notes shares this snap by Timoni Grone at Sioux City Gateway Airport (the infamous SUX). Northwest Iowa is taking that quart-size regulation very seriously!
We still think that Ziploc sponsored this regulation in order to force us to buy more plastic bags. (Despite what the cheeky TSA bloggers might say.) We've found this rule to be unevenly enforced; some airports didn't even require us to take our liquid sack out of our carry-on.
What's the most ridiculous signage you've seen out in the field?
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· If We Give Up Our Exclamation Points, the Terrorists Win! [PAN]
· TSA Circus Continues; Ziplock Stock Gets a Boost [Jaunted]
· Airport Security coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: timoni]
Tags: Travel Trendwatching / Virgin America / SUX / SeaTac / Kid Rock / Airport WiFi / → All Tags
Travel Trendwatching, PEZ Dispenser Style
This quick hit list is all about pop culture travel trends in real-time. Six bits of travel pressed, dry candy pixels for you to digest weekly.
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Virgin America Gearing Up for San Diego Service |
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Sioux City SUX (and Loves It) |
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We Had to Make a "Kid Rock Fight Venues" Map |
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SeaTac Not Celebrating Christmas (or Any Other Holiday) |
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San Diego Suffering |
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Sioux City Airport Officially SUX
When you are issued the airport code SUX you have two choices -- whine until the FAA changes the code, or embrace the suxage. Sioux City Gateway Airport and city officials have decided to do the latter. The code is now proudly emblazoned on t-shirts, caps, and on the airports new web site, which proudly proclaims:
Great airfares. Free Internet. Easy on, easy off. Why wouldn't ya?
Why embrace the SUX? Well, when Sioux City official petitioned the FAA to change the code back in 1988 and 2002 the FAA offered the city a couple alternatives, including GAY. Heh. So someone at the FAA has the sense of humor of a seventh grader, nice.
It could be worse. We tend to always forget the Las Vegas airport code, which should be LVS but is inexplicably LAS. No one will ever forget that Sioux City SUX.
Related Stories:
· Airport Coverage [Jaunted]
· Hotels in Sioux City [HotelChatter]
