The Philadelphia Airport System website, www.phl.org, received a record 1.1 billion hits in the past 18 months. The site, which debuted in 1997 and was re-designed in 2003, now averages more than 63 million web hits per month. A hit represents information that has been downloaded from a website.
The Transportation and Security Administration, those fine folks who claim to have made airline flight safer by confiscating our fingernail clippers, are at it again in making our lives more difficult.