Posted on 08/10/2006 8:53:20 AM PDT by beebuster2000
getting calls and e mails from friends checking onto flights across usa today. for some, no carry on luggage of any kind permitted, just ravel documents. for others, search and canfiscation of any liquid contaner including shampoo and toothpaste.
long delays. suggest if you are traveling you leave all liquid items home
duh
Invest in Proctor and Gamble. Lots of toothpaste and shampoo to be repurchased over the next month or so.
I understand that you can put such items in your check-in baggage. When I fly a week from Friday, if still in effect, I'll have my trusty moneybelt with my money, ID and credit cards, and everything will go in my check-in.
Spell check is your friend.
I just picked my daughter up at ICT, after she spent several weeks with family in Michigan.
I wish they would have the 85 lbs of scrapbook stuff she brought back with her...
"canfiscation": the act of seizing a canned liquid substance
so there
why can't they just do profiling to zero in on the most suspicious people, rather than inconveniencing(sp?) everybody? Mothers with breast milk in a bottle are judged equally likely to be a terrorist as a foreigner from a country known as a hotbed of terrorism and anti-Americanism? Just doesn't make sense to me. The hassle factor with flying is going to hurt the airlines as much as terrorist threats and increasing fuel costs. I think fewer people will want to fly in the first place if they make it like a criminal interrogation for everybody and pretend that everybody is equally likely to be in a terror plot.
How long do we want to put up with it, that's the question.
"everything will go in my check-in."
I just bought tix for a 14-hour flight abroad.
If I can't bring books or magazines, I'll just have to double-up on the Ambien.
n light of British police breaking an airline bombing plot, U.S. officials Thursday raised the threat level for air transport to the highest, code red.
The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement passengers on all domestic and international flights would be banned from transporting any type of liquid or gel in their carry-on luggage. The ban applies to all types of beverages, shampoo, toothpaste, hair gels and other items of a similar consistency, the TSA announced.
Britain imposed similar bans with the exception of baby formula, which the traveler would have to prove safe by drinking some.
The move came after Scotland Yard announced the arrests of 21 people in London and Birmingham late Wednesday. They said intelligence indicated they were involved in a plot to simultaneously down as many as 10 U.S.-carrier flights from Britain to the United States using explosive liquids in carry-on baggage.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said officials had no indication that the plot included attacks inside the United States.
The U.S. Air Transport Association issued a statement asking passengers to be patient with the "temporary measures" that would result in intensified searches and considerable delays.
"I think fewer people will want to fly in the first place if they make it like a criminal interrogation for everybody"
Don't worry. Soon we'll all be flying in the nude.
I did that once on a flight home from Japan, however, I would never incapacitate myself on a plane again...ever.
What, no slippers?
"I would never incapacitate myself on a plane again...ever."
I do it every time I transit more than 5 time zones, otherwise it takes too long to get over the jet lag.
I'm glad we're in the Ambien age. Valium (the old jet lag solution) left me too woozy and "whoopee-woozy", once causing an argument with armed Customs agents. Whoops.
If you're going around the globe, it's the difference between 2 days and 10 days to surmount jet lag.
That's what I said, no slippers? Now there are 574 new cases of athlete's foot!
My husband had toothpaste, deodorant, and contact lens solution taken away. He said that you wouldn't believe the stuff just being trashed away, including prescriptions (had to have a bottle with your name on it).
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