For the 13th year in a row the oneworld® alliance has been named the world’s Best Airline Alliance for wines served by member airlines onboard in an annual international tasting competition. The Gold award in the Best Alliance category came from the Business Traveller’s Cellars in the Sky Awards 2023 now in its 38th year. The Cellars in the Sky Awards has been running since 1985 and celebrates the best business and first class wines served by airlines on their flights. Judging this year’s inflight wines were winemaker John Worontschak, Masters of Wine Sam Caporn and Peter McCombie, and head judge Charles Metcalfe, founder of the International Wine Challenge. oneworld’s VP Europe, Middle East and Africa, Roger Blackburn, picked up the award at a ceremony in London this week following a blind tasting by judges who sampled more than 280 wines submitted by 30 airlines for consideration. Roger Blackburn said: “We are delighted to raise a glass to all oneworld carriers who took part in this year’s Cellars in Sky Awards which helped to secure the alliance’s premiere position and once again recognised our member airlines for offering the best wines in-flight.”<br/>
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The Transportation Security Administration is investigating how a tickletless woman at Nashville International Airport boarded a flight headed for Los Angeles without going through TSA's first checkpoint. On Feb. 7, a traveler hopped over one of the security stanchions at Nashville International Airport, bypassing the first TSA checkpoint — where fliers are asked to show identification and a boarding pass — and blended back into the security line, Mark Howell, spokesperson for the southern region of the TSA, told KTLA 5. In the latest incident, the female traveler was physically screened, along with their carry-on items, without incident at the Nashville airport before boarding the flight, said Lorie Dankers, TSA spokesperson for the western region. "TSA and its airline partners are cooperating with the ongoing law enforcement investigation," Dankers said. The FBI said it responded to a report "of an individual who got on an American Airlines flight without a ticket and flew from Nashville to Los Angeles," said Lourdes Arocho, public information officer for the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office. "A woman in question was detained for questioning and our investigation is still ongoing," Arocho said.<br/>