TSA Carry-On Baggage Rules

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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.

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.


http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060810-1252
 
Great, just frelling great....

I was scheduled to fly <<shudder>> next week, but thats been put off for another month. I am NOT looking forward to keeping my tongue and indignation in check while suffering the attentions of the TSA buffoons. I usually pack everything into my carry on luggage since I HATE having to check luggage. Guess that's not an option now, since I need toothpaste (two kinds), cleaning solution and saline for my contact lenses, deodorant and such.

Maybe the collective membership of THR & APS should all pitch in and buy a fractional interest in a private jet.
 
I suppose you couldn't actually die of thirst on even a long flight. :scrutiny:

12 or more hours without a beverage though. Nice. At least you'll be safe......
 
I'm just aching to says something about liquids concealed on my person. Unfortunately, none of them is suitable for The High Road.
 
TSA.gov TSAtravelrules.gov

Do any members here know the special rules website the TSA set up? I think it's www.tsatravelrules.gov . I know about www.tsa.gov but where can a gun owner find the information for transporting firearms/ammo on US airlines. I plan a trip soon that may require air travel and want to bring my GP-100 revolver with me. I want to make sure my weapons and ammo are safe/secure while I'm at the airports and on the aircraft.

Thanks;
RS

;)
 
I believe body cavity searches are in order never know where a tube of
of liquid could be hid.:rolleyes: Perhaps if we had more control over our
immigration/borders we may slow down the loss of freedom for people
here, just a thought but won't happen. We need the student money
from other countries too much.:rolleyes:

Don't fly commerical now and will not again, but that is me and I know
many people who must for their jobs.
 
TSA is fighting an impossible battle, losing it, and doing a very poor job of doing so.

When you consider the high percentage of travellors who do not check baggage when they fly I do not believe that this policy will be in effect forever. ( remember they now allow toenail clippers with files and some other odds and ends ). It will be in effect for a while and will then be slowly rolled back.

I cannot recall for certain but I thought that when TSA first started that coffe and liquids were not allowed, I remember a columnist making jokes about about hot coffe being used as a weapon. Does anyone recall for certain?

Imagine how tough it would be to fly if they invented a powdered or solid explosive.
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DirtyBrad

So true, and that is why TSA is fighting an impossible and unwinnable battle.

Even if they were to strip everyone naked there is more than enough space in cavities of the human body, natural or man made, to carry enough payload (explosives, nerve gas, bioweapon) to destroy an airliner.

Why would someone who was willing to die for a cause refuse discomfort and/or surgery?

NukemJim
 
Youv'e seen it said "Gun control isn't about guns, it's about control."

Well, travel security regulations aren't about security, they are about regulation. Getting us used to more and more government presence in our lives.

Or you can look at it as a win for the wogs. Terrorism need not always mean destruction, it need only threaten destruction and come through every once in a long while to have an effect.
 
:evil: Really starting to wonder if maybe "Fed-Ex-ing" my luggage*** to my vacation spot might be easier than tring to cope with all the "Change-by-the-minute TSA rules"


***And if I can get a box big enough..Fed-Ex-ing my myself there, too

From the initial post re:banned items:

Contacts may be brought on board in their cases, but the cases cannot contain liquid.

I don't wear contacts, Mrs. Foggy does. By the time you get to where you are going, contacts in a case like that (dry) will be nothing but 2 pieces of dried, curled plastic...not useasble for anything. IIRC, the contact lens case MIGHT contain 1 or 2 teaspoons of solution, if even that much.


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Let's see, we just open the borders so that anyone can waltz in.
Then we take away Granny's denture cream when she tries to fly to visit the new baby.

Yup. Makes sense. The Fed's have this figured out perfectly.
 
I fly a lot to for business, and carry on all of my luggage. Should be interesting. Some savvy businesspeople should sell care packages right outside of airports. At this point I would pay $20 for a package that contained Shampoo, Toothpaste, a bottle of water, nail clippers, a razor, shaving cream...and especially OC spray and maybe a small knife.

Really starting to wonder if maybe "Fed-Ex-ing" my luggage*** to my vacation spot might be easier than tring to cope with all the "Change-by-the-minute TSA rules
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My boss does that when he goes on vacation, it ain't cheap, but man it does sound like it makes your life easy.
 
Hmmm . . . I wonder how many travelers will have a small, non-metallic container of perfume, shampoo, etc., in a pocket as they go through the metal detector . . .

In any case, it seems like a big payoff for TSA screeners who are now sure to get plenty of things like expensive perfumes for themselves or their significant others . . . :rolleyes:
 
The new TSA rule is....you shall be loaded nude and unconscious onto the plane.

My only demand is that I am not subjected to seeing Larry King in the raw.
 
Interesting. Makes flying with anything breakable (cameras) even more difficult, as checking those in would get them broken or stolen. Maybe I will have to forgo flying for a year or two and just get used to driving...through all the roadblocks put up for my own good.

You know, when we lived in 1970-80s Russia, govt. opening our mail from abroad was as a bad thing by American friends. The degree of intrusion into private lives here and now makes Brezhnev and Andropov era seem less nasty, if only by comparison.
 
Well, travel security regulations aren't about security, they are about regulation. Getting us used to more and more government presence in our lives.
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I see this as nonsense. The reason for air travel security is to protect that industry, people's lives, and what severe disruption of that medium of transportation would mean to both the economy and our way of life.

I could question the effectiveness but not the motivation. Sure, it's possible that someone will find a power base there, but that will not have been any original motive. There is no conspiracy.
 
The new TSA rule is....you shall be loaded nude and unconscious onto the plane.
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and as Quagmire on the Family Guy say..."all right":)

Just wait until they try to use gun cotton to take down a plane. The nude part may happen.
 
Gun cotton has been used before. Yari Yousef used it back in the 90's but failed to crash the plane. All that happened was a big hole and one or two dead. Stuffed a doll with it, put it on the plane and then walked off. Didn't have the manstuff to be a suicide bomber.
 
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Sarlington said - I am scheduled to fly on Monday and was planning to take my Glock 19 along in order to take my Nevada CCW. Now I am wondering if it will be more problems than it is worth.

If anything, it makes taking your "traveling companion" a better idea. You have to check your piece anyway. My companion - Senore Beretta - can put up with mouth wash, shower soap, contact lens solution, deoderant, shampoo, etc.) for a plane ride.
 
There will be no problem...

taking a pistol along as it will be in checked baggage, not carryon. I don't have a problem with the regulations but with the mindless dolts they hire as screeners. I have an extensive background in airport/airline security and I thank my lucky stars I did not hire on with the TSA. I only fly once a year to visit the inlaws, and I work for an airline......just not worth the hassle.....chris3
 
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