Posted on 08/10/2006 10:54:02 AM PDT by Hydroshock
If you're flying soon, the rules concerning what you may and may not carry onto the plane with you just changed in response to the arrest in the United Kingdom of people accused of plotting to destroy aircraft bound from England to the United States by exploding liquids in their carry-on bags. Find out the details of this thwarted terrorist plot.
Effective Thursday, Aug. 10, travelers are no longer allowed to bring the following items on board the airliner: --All liquids of any kind, including drinks --Gels --Lotions and creams, including hand lotion and sunscreen --Contacts may be brought on board in their cases, but the cases cannot contain liquid. --Hairspray --Toothpaste --Shampoo and conditioner --Liquid makeup --Perfume --Anything else that has a liquid or gel-like consistency.
Higher security means long lines and chaos in airports nationwide.
If you bring any of these items through airport security, TSA agents will confiscate them from your carry-on luggage; however, you may still place them in checked luggage. Some exceptions are granted for passengers traveling with an infant or small child. Baby formula, juice, bottled breast milk and baby food are allowed, but they will be tested by the TSA to ensure they are not explosives. Prescription drugs, insulin and some nonprescription medication are also allowed with proper identification. The new procedures cover all flights, both international and domestic. Currently, laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic devices are allowed, but that is subject to change.
I'm told by my travel buddies that liquids are not allowed through screening, You can still purchase from vendors behind the screening though.
"I don't know about y'all, but if my contacts aren't immersed in liquid, they turn into teensy little clear potato-chip-lookin' thingies and will never be fit for insertion again.
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Xenalyte,
Don't you have a pair of regular glasses? Wear them, put your contacts in your checked luggage and stop worrying about all this.
There's a simple solution to most things. Were you planning to fly somewhere?
It doesn't. But then, neither do TSA's new edicts. Think I can't smuggle a liquid through security under these new rules?
Depending on how long these rules stay in place, we may be witnessing the death of the American airline industry. TSA has gone from making it simply inconvenient to fly to actually making it uncomfortable. I'm sick and tired of being treated like a suspect just because I want to fly on an airplane, all because the goobermint refuses to do the right thing and profile passengers.
I don't think this is about explosives at all.
Worse.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1205309,00.html
It doesn't matter what the UK does, but airlines are not going to let the government drive off their best passengers.
Of course, back in the 80s, we flew with neither phones nor lap tops and did just fine.
I prefer videoconferencing or webex anyway, as do most of my clients. The days of requiring that business be done face-to-face are vanishing.
I'm all for it but it would not prevent Achmed from detonating a bomb
in the bathroom which he had concealed about his person.
Then you aren't flying with them. It is the rule now in UK and expect it to start here within 6 months.
"My FRiend, that's what Zip-Loc bags are for."
I know. I thought about that, but then I figured out that I didn't really need all that crap anyhow. It makes packing easier, too.
At the class of hotels I stay at, you can ask at the desk when you check in, and they'll even give you a toothbrush and toothpaste at no charge. All in a nice little sealed plastic bag.
Shampoo and conditioner are right there in the bathroom when I get to my room. That's about it for me, as far as grooming aids go. I find that regular showers handle the rest.
"If you were an 80-year-old grandmother, you would have been strip searched.
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Right.
One novel on a cross-country flight each way is the best that I can do.
"I generally don't have time to stop for contact solution & toothpaste (shampoo I can get at the hotel) every time I land.
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The little gift shop in the hotel has both. If you stay in crappy motels, of course, you'll have to go to the convenience store across the street.
I fly out of DIA on a regular basis for business. It is not so bad if you have airline status and can avoid the herd. Still, I would recommend leaving the house 2 1/2 hrs before the departure time.
You could be right.
I don't expect it to start in the US anytime soon, unless one of these devices is actually used in an attack.
Airlines know that businesspeople won't check laptops. They'll just figure out another way to get the meeting done without flying.
Better yet, due to unexpected developments beyond your control, apply it while going through security.
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I ain't flyin' until I can take my Zippo.
Maybe businesses will have to start sending their techie staff instead of their middle management on trips.
I generally stay at Hilton, Sheraton, etc. Yes, I suppose I could purchase them at the gift shop, as foolish as that is.
Unfortunately I use only a certain kind of contact solution (other brands burn my eyes), so that will still present a problem.
Hahahahaha!!!
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