The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is introducing Secure Flight, a program designed to enhance the security of commercial air travel. As a result, we want to make you aware of some additional information we will need to obtain from you at the time of booking.

Starting now, when you purchase a ticket on Virgin America, you will need to provide the following information as it appears on the government issued photo ID you will use when traveling:

Full Name (First, Middle, Last)
Date of Birth
Gender

TSA Redress Number (if applicable – a TSA provided number for personal identification for those persons who have gone through the TSA redress process)

So I guess purchasing a domestic ticket will now be more along the lines of purchasing an internat'l one, where you give your Passport number (which contains all the info the TSA now seems to want from everyone).  I've actually never understood why entering a driver's license/gov't issued ID number wasn't required to purchase airline tickets.  

While this new reg. isn't earth-shattering, at least it's a measure that's actually related to the ID screening process instead of the body/luggage process.  As everyone keeps saying, preventing baddies from getting on the plane in the first place should be the priority, not shackling the rest of us to our seats.  I'll cling to this glimmer of hope for now, I guess…

(P.S. If this is in the wrong area of the forum, feel free to move it...)

The above is a list to the latest update of a body scanner list FT members have compiled. It includes the complete list of US airports with body scanners with a lot of detail as to where exactly they are and how to circumvent them. Please contribute if you have updated info or info on those airports where we don't have enough detail yet, e.g. Miami.

In these days, it is even more important not to cave in to the undermining of civil liberties and human rights and to speed up the screening process as much as possible.

Till

I used to have a pair of Mizuno racing flats that were tremendous.  They certainly weren't shoes you'd run in every day, but they were great for races and occasional runs.  Combine them with a pair of synthetic running shorts and a singlet, and you were only looking at around a pound.  None of that stuff could be used for anything else, of course!

For me, trying to work out in a hotel room is too difficult - and monotonous. Perhaps someone else has some great ideas for working out on the road. 

I generally like to run more than anything else. The minimal equipment for this is shoes/socks/shorts/tshirt.

A pair of running shoes can be a big hit volume- and weight-wise and, at least in my case, I can't use them for walking around or going to a nice restaurant. There are shoes known as flats that pro runners use for marathons that are very light and can be packed in a pretty small volume. I recently bought a pair but have yet to try them out. They're just good enough to get you through your exercise on asphalt or sidewalk surfaces and that's about it. They won't win points design-wise and probably won't win them comfort-wise either. We'll see how they work out. These are my flats: http://www.niallkennedy.com/bl.....ayfly.html

Socks, tshirt and shorts is manageable weight- and volume-wise and you might be able to reuse the tshirt (after a wash!), the socks, too. Don't know if a pair of running shorts would be something I'd use on the street.

The other option I've heard about is exercising in the hotel room. CNN had a video series online on fitness exercises in the hotel room using minimal equipment consisting of a couple of types of rubber tubing, easy to pack and doesn't weigh much. (I have to wonder what TSA would say about it.) Some smart ideas in these videos, good for when you travel to really cold/really hot places, or when the hour is inappropriate. Here's the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL.....index.html