Holiday Travel & the News

Holiday travel offers it on joys and inconviniences, mostly inconviences. Here's some recent news stories that could offer plenty of blog-conversation:

• Enhanced pat-downs necessary for now, TSA chief says (CNN 11/21/10 2:49 PM ET)
• Boston-to-Chicago flight stopped in Buffalo after discovery of crack in windshield (Boston Globe, 11/21/10 3:51 PM ET)
• New airport scanners prompt calls for Thanksgiving travel boycott (Consumer Reports Blog, 11/19/10)
• Improved economic conditions to boost Thanksgiving travel by more than 11 percent, AAA says (AAA Newsroom, 11/16/2010)