Another stupid question!! Packing

[Lorikr65]

I'm trying to figure out if I'll be okay bring on a plastic bottle of alcohol - packed in my checked luggage. Since I don't want it to leak I was thinking about putting it in a air sealed plastic bag - I have a vacuum sealer I use to put food in to freeze. I thought if I put the plastic bottle in that and then put it in a plastic bag and vacuum sealed it that it would be less likely to leak. I'm just hoping it will be okay with the pressure on the plane. Does this sound like it will work??

 

[justplaingoofy]

Should be fine... we usually check suntan oil, etc..

I would double bag it....... just to be safe.... imagine the looks you'd get at Disney standing in line.... smelling like a bar....

 

[M 'n C]

hmm just to be safe I would try to disguise the liquor by putting in a water bottle or coke bottle because there are some laws governing the transportation of liquor between states.

 

[travelitis]

Cruisers do this all the time. Move the alcohol to soda bottle then ziplock it. Don't even have to get all fancy with a vac seal.

 

[dawna_521]

I too am bringing alcohol with me in my checked baggage, and purchased a stainless steel flask to avoid leaking or breaking. TSA website states this about alcoholic beverages:

Alcoholic beverages. Because alcohol is flammable, it is subject to hazardous materials regulations. You are not allowed to transport – either in carry-on or checked luggage – alcoholic beverages with more than 70 percent alcohol content (140 proof). Some examples of prohibited items include 95 percent grain alcohol and 150 proof rum.

Each passenger can have up to five liters of alcohol with an alcoholic content between 24 percent and 70 percent – as long as it is packaged in a sealable bottle or flask.

 

[Lorikr65]

Glad to see others are bringing alcohol also!! I'll think I'll just double bag it. We are leaving at 6pm today and I really don't feel like running around any more!! I did put it in a water bottle because I didn't want to bring glass. I had called a few weeks back and, at that time, they said you would carry it on as long as you didn't open it in the cabin - of course that has changed now. I just want to get on the plane and whatever I forget, I forget. I do keep a packing list and check and double check it off.

 

[flightnurse]

I just now read your comments about transporting alcohol in your baggage on your flight. I am a flightnurse and at the present time it would be far safer for you to buy what you need in liquor when you reach your destination then to pack it. At least until they lessen the restrictions. You don`t want to be termed "illegal carrier" and receive the consequences that follow you for the rest of your life. Your name will go on a restrictions list and you will then be red flagged. And I`m certain you don`t want that for just a small savings.
Be safe!!!!!!!

 

[dawna_521]

I just now read your comments about transporting alcohol in your baggage on your flight. I am a flightnurse and at the present time it would be far safer for you to buy what you need in liquor when you reach your destination then to pack it. At least until they lessen the restrictions. You don`t want to be termed "illegal carrier" and receive the consequences that follow you for the rest of your life. Your name will go on a restrictions list and you will then be red flagged. And I`m certain you don`t want that for just a small savings.
Be safe!!!!!!!

Are you saying it is illegal to bring alcohol in your CHECKED luggage, or is this statement refering to CARRYON baggage?? From reading the TSA website, it is OK to bring liquor as long as it is in checked luggage and in a spill-proof container.

 

[CarolA]

I just now read your comments about transporting alcohol in your baggage on your flight. I am a flightnurse and at the present time it would be far safer for you to buy what you need in liquor when you reach your destination then to pack it. At least until they lessen the restrictions. You don`t want to be termed "illegal carrier" and receive the consequences that follow you for the rest of your life. Your name will go on a restrictions list and you will then be red flagged. And I`m certain you don`t want that for just a small savings.
Be safe!!!!!!!

Well in the checked luggage there is NOTHING "illegal" about what OP wants to do. And if the IDIOTS at the TSA put everyone who they catch at the security checkpoints with beverages on the NO FLY LIST it's a LONG LONG LONG list.

Packing beverages in your CHECKED luggage is NOT illegal. It is also legal to transport the booze! (It may be illegal to import it into your state, but that's another whole set of laws)

At the present time the TSA is being run by FOOLS! This entire "beverage ban" is NOT protecting you... what LITTLE protection it MIGHT have given you was competetly overriden when the TSA deciided that your FAs and Pilots can carry on liquids..... And do me a favor IF you see your FA drinkiing his or her Starbucks on the plane give them HECK!!! It's bad enough they get to "endanger" us without flaunting it......

 

[flightnurse]

My! My! Carol A I didn`t mean to raise the back of your hairs!! I have just returned from the United Emirates and we were given the directive concerning "alcohol"!!
If you have trouble or problems with TSA then work to get improvements.. Please don`t vent on me! And what is this about coffee?? I`m sorry but I don`t follow your logic?? What has coffee to do with alcohol??
And who said anything about being put on a no fly list?? I simply said that you would be watched for a long time !!
The pilots we work with are angels and yes we do drink a lot of coffee and nobody flaunts it !! So I`m sorry if you have had problems ..But like I said before work to improve what you don`t like..don`t just sit back and complain!! I`m sorry if I ruined your day! But I still say BE SAFE!!!!!!!!

 

[my3kids]

I have taken alcohol as checked items a lot and never has there been a problem. There is no reason to remove it from the origional bottle and actually a lot of reasons why not to change it. An open bottle, unsealed, in a suitcase might elicit an inspection. If it says water and they check and it is isn't you can bet you are going to be investigated to see exactly WHAT it is. Keep it in the bottles if you can't buy it at the destination.

 

[justplaingoofy]

Well in the checked luggage there is NOTHING "illegal" about what OP wants to do. And if the IDIOTS at the TSA put everyone who they catch at the security checkpoints with beverages on the NO FLY LIST it's a LONG LONG LONG list.

Packing beverages in your CHECKED luggage is NOT illegal. It is also legal to transport the booze! (It may be illegal to import it into your state, but that's another whole set of laws)

At the present time the TSA is being run by FOOLS! This entire "beverage ban" is NOT protecting you... what LITTLE protection it MIGHT have given you was competetly overriden when the TSA deciided that your FAs and Pilots can carry on liquids..... And do me a favor IF you see your FA drinkiing his or her Starbucks on the plane give them HECK!!! It's bad enough they get to "endanger" us without flaunting it......

WOW!!!!

 

[salmoneous]

Wow - amazing how a thread can turn, no? A few quick points...

1) Other than the specific rule quoted above (nothing over 70% etc) there are no restrictions on transporting booze in your check baggage.

2) Vacuum sealing will probably cause more trouble than good - double bagging is the way to go.

3) A lot of TSA rules do cause a lot of hassle for no real safety benefit. If you want to do something about it, write your Congressmen or TSA directly.

4) FA's in general are pretty good folks who put up with enough crap from passengers. Go out of your way to be nice to them.

 

[CarolA]

My! My! Carol A I didn`t mean to raise the back of your hairs!! I have just returned from the United Emirates and we were given the directive concerning "alcohol"!!
If you have trouble or problems with TSA then work to get improvements.. Please don`t vent on me! And what is this about coffee?? I`m sorry but I don`t follow your logic?? What has coffee to do with alcohol??
And who said anything about being put on a no fly list?? I simply said that you would be watched for a long time !!
The pilots we work with are angels and yes we do drink a lot of coffee and nobody flaunts it !! So I`m sorry if you have had problems ..But like I said before work to improve what you don`t like..don`t just sit back and complain!! I`m sorry if I ruined your day! But I still say BE SAFE!!!!!!!!

You indicated thatt "You don`t want to be termed "illegal carrier" and receive the consequences that follow you for the rest of your life. Your name will go on a restrictions list and you will then be red flagged. And I`m certain you don`t want that for just a small savings." Sounds like a "no fly" list to me.

You are giving yourself too much credit if you think you ruined my day....

I have compllained. I have written the TSA and ALL my elected officials in DC. My statements are that I have no problem following rules designed to ensure my saftey. However, I work with companaies on controls on a daily basis. As SOON as the TSA deciided that FAs and Pilots could carry on their toothpaste, water, coffee, shaving creme, makeup etc. that the rest of us could not be trusted with the "ban" became a USELESS control. (Not that it was a good one in the first place, good controls are by nature preventive vs. reactive" As a FlightNurse you should understand that it's better for the pilots to have figured out safe landing and take off zones rather then figuring out how to crash land.... The TSA missed that class IMHO) I also consider it laugable that if I buy a Starbucks Coffee in the gate area "it's dangerous" and can't be carried on board, but if the pilot buys it "it's safe" IT IS THE SAME COFFEE, it is either dangerous or safe not "maybe if we like you it's safe"

BE SAFE would imply that this is an EFRECTIVE method of defeating terror.... Well since it's not an effective control, it's pretty much not an effective method of defeating terror.

I would suggest that if you think the liquid ban is a resonable security measure you should be outraged that it is not uniformly enforced to protect you, but being enforced on a "selective basis"

You stated that the OP was violating a law, the OP is not violating any law by checking a legal substance allowed by the TSA in her luggage.


(And you aren't going to convice me that "pilots and FAs" are all just wonderful... Last Friday a Comair FA was convicted of setting a fire in the bathroom on the plane.... I grew up knowing a lot of pilots, it's like any group of folks, good ones and bad ones)

 

[disykat]

I also think vacuum sealing would cause suspicion and they might open it. We flew on the 11th and 4 out of our 5 checked bags were opened and inspected.

 

[flightnurse]

Carol!!
Your first few sentences are correct in stating what I said but I can`t help what they mean to you I did not say that you would be put on a "NO FLY LIST"!!! You said that I did not!!
I sincerely hope that when you wrote to your elected officials concerning theTSA that you used a little better attitude than what I infer coming from this board!! I do not want to argue with you!! I simply made a statement!! And as the other person on this board has already said these airline people whether pilots or crew work hard!! And as far as any "bad apples" are concerned these are found all over so why should the flight industry be spared from these kind of people! But please don`t generalize!! Since I very rarely come into an airport I have no knowledge of what the airlines allow their crews to take aboard whatever you said!
And another thing I would hope the planes you fly on have crews that know how to crash land their birds as well as the usual take-offs and landings because if not when the time would ever come when you needed them to do this you would certainly hope that they knew how to..wouldn`t you?? I definitely would!! Someday your life may depend upon that!!
As I said before I trust our pilots with my life and that of my patients ..coffee or no coffee!! We get directives of what is or is not allowed just like the regular airline passenger!! And believe it or not..security from the hospitals come out to our bird to inspect before take-offs after 9/11 !! So we have been doing these inspections like everybody else either with hospital security or regular airport security who come out to meet us on the pad!!
And I am not so vain as to take credit for anybody but myself!!
Good-nite and I sincerely hope you do feel better the next time you are in a bird!!

 

[lorli]

Boy how things really get started and turned around on here. When I read flightnurse's post I flet she was only telling you what has happened to others from experiences she has been able to bear witness to and was sharing with this community to offer knowledge of what could come.

Thank you flightnurse.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I just now read your comments about transporting alcohol in your baggage on your flight. I am a flightnurse and at the present time it would be far safer for you to buy what you need in liquor when you reach your destination then to pack it. At least until they lessen the restrictions. You don`t want to be termed "illegal carrier" and receive the consequences that follow you for the rest of your life. Your name will go on a restrictions list and you will then be red flagged. And I`m certain you don`t want that for just a small savings.

This is nonsense. You are free to bring alcohol in checked baggage (folllowing alcohol content guidelines already posted); I do it all the time.

The OP is bringing alcohol to Florida from another US state - no problem!

 

[Lorikr65]

I actually called Southwest twice before I left and they said it was fine to bring alcohol in your checked bag and it is also fine to put the alcohol in another bottle. Not sure what flightnurse is talking about because it is all legal - I checked and double checked and had no problems.

Why would you be termed and "illegal carrier" when you are doing something that is legal??