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- Jan 26, 2005
More security theater.
Next time I fly, I will be taking 10,000 pieces of small, individually wrapped candy in my carryon. Have fun, TSA!
There's a part of me that wonders if TSA isn't intentionally making this as onerous as possible to push more people to do Precheck.
I've wondered the same thing. Its a revenue boost to them.
Or, they are trying to discourage everyone from bringing carryon bags.
Nooooooo!We were actually talking about how long it's going to be until you're not allowed carryon bags.
We were actually talking about how long it's going to be until you're not allowed carryon bags.
And what does swabbing mean? Each piece of little candy? Candy in closed wrappers? And what are they swabbing them with? This sounds so crazy.
We were terrified that they were going to try to confiscate the doll because it had way more water in it than is allowed. However, the agent, seeing the distressed look on my daughter's face, just had us empty the water out of it and let us go through. I have zero doubt in my mind that had we not been in the Precheck line, they absolutely would have confiscated her doll.
Its going to be a big fight because the airlines don't want the liability of broken or stolen laptops and other electronics. I read a while back that airlines' bread & butter is the business traveler. The same ones that pop open their laptop and do work on the flight and take laptops with them. The airlines don't want to lose those customers.
They have been doing this in Birmingham for months, and yes, TSA pre check also has to take their food out. We just put all our snacks in a ziplock bag so we can easily pull it out for screening.Anyone know if this also applies to people going through the TSA pre-check line? I always bring a bag of saltines and sometimes a few protein bars with me when we travel. Using pre-check, I don't have to pull out my liquids or electronics, so I'm hoping the same is true for food...but would be nice to know ahead of time so I can pack appropriately.
Ok, why books? And what does swabbing mean? Each piece of little candy? Candy in closed wrappers? And what are they swabbing them with? This sounds so crazy. I guess you might as well dump all bag stuff in the bins. Bad enough you have to pay for extra bags, and now this.
We were actually talking about how long it's going to be until you're not allowed carryon bags.
There was talk about not letting electronics in carry on bags earlier this year. Someone either threw a fit to the administration or pointed out how that would never work since they quickly decided not to do that.
I was thinking along those lines, but wasn't sure. Thank you for answering.Books is driven by the fact that it can look like a large block of black if the book is dense enough. I had to deal with this on a flight back from Munich this summer. I had 2 large coffee table style photo books in one of my carryons that was really messing with the scanner and they took them out to confirm and re-ran the rest of the contents separately. When combining that large dense mass with all the random cables I always travel with they just wanted to be sure, which was fine with me.
Swabbing is literally as the term suggests, swabbing with a single-use swab (usually a white disc around 2" diameter) and then putting that swab into a scanning device to measure for potential explosive residue. That has been happening for decades now and is nothing new. I have randomly had backpacks 'swabbed' over the years in probably half the major airports in the country. It doesn't happen a lot but there is typically something they see (they will never tell you what it is) that prompts it. Sometimes it just appears to be a random check.
We had all of our candy scanned in the Providence airport heading down to Orlando. I wouldn't have packed so much. I told them to just throw it in the trash but they said it was no problem and continued scanning. In Florida coming home, complete opposite. Had to keep shoes on and left everything in bags. There was a dog we had to walk by. You never know what the process is.
We had all of our candy scanned in the Providence airport heading down to Orlando. I wouldn't have packed so much. I told them to just throw it in the trash but they said it was no problem and continued scanning. In Florida coming home, complete opposite. Had to keep shoes on and left everything in bags. There was a dog we had to walk by. You never know what the process is.
That was another problem that went on when we were waiting. When we first entered the line there was a guy telling everyone to put everything in their bags to speed things up. Then they stopped all the lines for 10-15 mins. Then someone came around telling us we had to separate everything in our bags (foods, liquids, electronics). Just caused more of a backup.We had all of our candy scanned in the Providence airport heading down to Orlando. I wouldn't have packed so much. I told them to just throw it in the trash but they said it was no problem and continued scanning. In Florida coming home, complete opposite. Had to keep shoes on and left everything in bags. There was a dog we had to walk by. You never know what the process is.