southwest When Southwest passenger's bag is too heavy to check on, she gets creative in the most hilarious way (video) Carla Sinclair

drugs Lost luggage: two huge suitcases packed with different drugs retrieved hundreds of miles apart Allan Rose Hill

News Yippee! Airlines must now issue automatic refunds for canceled flights Mark Frauenfelder

airlines Judge orders airline to compensate passenger for rotten fish in his lost luggage David Pescovitz

airplanes POV: You're a checked bag on your way to the airplane (video) David Pescovitz

travel mishaps Oops! Frontier Airlines sent passenger to Jamaica instead of Jacksonville — without a passport Carla Sinclair

gadgets Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags Rob Beschizza

airlines Man hacked airline Web site to locate his lost luggage after customer service was unhelpful David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Brandless is making luggage to survive the road AND save the planet Boing Boing's Shop

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Crowdfunding a suitcase that becomes a closet Cory Doctorow

surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow

News TSA + CBP test new facial recognition tech & computed tomography scanners at LAX Xeni Jardin

nonconsensual stowaway Kitten saved from luggage, TSA success Robert Spallone

racism NAACP warns black people they aren't safe on American Airlines Rob Beschizza

travel Man checks single can of beer on flight David Pescovitz

spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway Cory Doctorow

Business Aviation is hell because airline exec pay is solely based on quarterly profits Cory Doctorow

photography The story of the TSA's oddly entertaining Instagram account David Pescovitz