Aging Parents and Airports: Happy Flying or headache-producing Part 2 (of 2)

 Body Scans and Body Searches

I worry about old people, who must endure a body search, for several reasons: First, they can easily have a crunched-up, forgotten Kleenex (if not their boarding pass) in a pocket that puts them into the body-search mode........ 


......continued on my other site: http://helpparentsagewell.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/aging-parents-and-airports-happy-flying-or-headache-producing-part-2/


(if not their boarding pass) 

Aging Parents and Airports: Happy Flying or Headache-producing? Part 1 (of 2)

 Announcements, Baggage, Body Scans (and screening), Check-in

It's always heartening when most older parents want to visit. It's especially so when we can share our lives with them on our turf if we are far-away-living children. But we all know airline travel has become more difficult. As airport security changes, even the most seasoned old travelers can find themselves flustered. Understandably feelings of insecurity accompanied by rising blood pressure can't help parents age well.

I'd like to be clever, calling this the ABC's of happy flying, but chronologically the process goes in reverse--beginning with check-in; ending in announcements, with baggage and body scans (and screening) in the middle. That said three experiences illustrate some of the problems, accompanied by ideas for damage control.

Please view my other site:
http://helpparentsagewell.com/2012/01/10/aging-parents-and-airports-happy-flying-or-headache-producing-part-1-of-2/ for the rest of this post.