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The US Allows Some Liquids; From a friend of Mine's Live Journal
Topic Started: Sep 25 2006, 07:47 PM (235 Views)
BlueMolly2009
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I got this from a friend of mine's Live journal.

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U.S. to allow some liquids on airliners

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The government is partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, as long as they are purchased from secure airport stores, and will also permit small, travel-size toiletries brought from home, officials said Monday.

A total ban on such products, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States was foiled, is no longer needed, said Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley.

"We now know enough to say that a total ban is no longer needed from a security point of view," Hawley told a news conference at Reagan National Airport.

He said that most liquids and gels that air travelers purchase in secure areas of airports will now be allowed on planes. He called the new procedures a "common sense" approach that would maintain a high level of security at airports but ease conditions for passengers.

That means that after passengers go through airport security checkpoints, they can purchase liquids at airport stores and take them onto their planes.

New procedures also were announced for toiletries and products like lip gloss and hand lotion that passengers bring to the airport. Previously, those liquids have been confiscated at security checkpoints. Now, these products will be limited to 3-ounce sizes and must fit in a clear, 1-quart size plastic bag. The bags will be screened and returned if they are cleared.

The new security regimen is for an indefinite period and will take effect Tuesday morning.

Tougher airport screening procedures were put in place in August after British police broke up a terrorist plot to assemble and detonate bombs using liquid explosives on airliners crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Britain to the U.S.

At the time, the Homeland Security Department briefly raised the threat level to "red," the highest level, for flights bound to the United States from Britain. All other flights were at "orange" and will remain at orange, the second-highest level, for now.

"Obviously, there's been a lot of unhappiness," said Richard Marchi, senior adviser to the Airports Council International, an airport trade group. "They're right to find a way to ease the burden and maintain a reasonable level of security."
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I heard this before I left for work this morning. I am so happy. No more buying toothpaste or begging the people where I am staying for their's.
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And the stores in the airport will be rolling in dough now. :lol: Most stores in the airport invlate their prices anyway, but hey.
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I can take what I need in the plastic bag. I had to buy toothpaste when I went to see Love and paid too much for a travel sized tube. I have two tubes of that now, so all I have to do from what I am reading is put the toothpaste in a ziplock bag of the correct size and pull it out at screening. Then it goes in my carry on.

I don't shop at airport stores. They are ridiculous in what they charge.
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Thanks for the pictures, Fiona. I will only be putting in toothpaste and lotion, so it should fit easily in the bag.
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I just flew from New York to Los Angeles and back without any problems. I had all my usual crap in my carry on bag and I even daringly bought a beverage at the airport.

No one got hurt as a result of my recklessness.
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mozart8mytoe
Sep 28 2006, 01:27 AM
No one got hurt as a result of my recklessness.

Glad to hear that.

My boyfriend said he put the saline solution for his contacts in his socks the last time he flew. It was before the rule change. He said he got right thru security with no problem.
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The only security problem I have ever had was when they could not figure out what the vibrator was. They....on second thought, maybe this is not such a great story.
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No, it is a great story. I want to hear more.

Last trip I took, they were insisting I had toothpaste in my carry on. They sent it through the scanner a second time and then the TSA screener yelled loudly "toothpaste, toothpaste". You'd have thought a bomb was going off. They took the suitcase and told me I was not to touch it. The zipper is broken and I have fixed it so I can get into it. They couldn't figure out how to get in the suitcase. :lol: Finally, they had me open it. There was no toothpaste in the suitcase after the took out everything. The second person said she had no idea what would even have looked like toothpaste.
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This is all playing into the terrorists' hands! Their plot is for all Americans to die of blood poisoning brought on by infections caused by tooth decay. Wake up people - you're doing their work for them!
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Then in Britain, the terrorists have already won.
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