It's months away at least. The governmental restrictions on air line workers striking are almost identical to those for railroads. There will be plenty of notice. And the last time there was an airline strike, in 1997, President Clinton issued an EO stopping it in minutes.
12:01 AM local time at point of departure is what a SW rep said on FlyerTalk.
Unless there are mobility issues in your group I would. Worst case is you don't make the flight and you end up on the same flight you were going to be on. More likely you're first plane is early and you have plenty of time.
I've never had them open my bag and look. In the 4 years I've had Pre I've never actually put my liquids in a ziplock. I'm always prepared with a quart bag in my backpack if they make me, but as a general rule they are all contained in my shaving kit.
While I know people who get through TSA without stuff getting caught and I myself have had that with things like a water bottle I would always plan to conform to their rules so I would pack in just a quart sized bag until they change the rules.
Pre-check is different though, same rules but you don't remove them from your bag. Although you are still supposed to have them in a quart sized bag.
Yeah tbh I use clear bags that are just quart sized and I've found the ones that have the more square bottoms are better for packing stuff in there. I have several but the one I most recently got I like the best. All of them were purchased as a travel toiletry bottle kit type thing. The more structured square or rectangle bottom is the best for most travel liquid stuff I've found as it fits the shapes of things better.
Saline and eye drops are considered medically necessary and do not need to be in the quart baggie, if those items are taking up space in yours.
Yeah I have those and yes you're correct they do not count although you would need to declare that to the TSA when they are larger than 3oz so they can inspect it (how often they do actually inspect IDK). But it's good information in general. For the most part travel sized shaving cream/gel takes up the most space in my bag IME along with the Febreeze. What I ended up doing though for Febreeze is taking an empty spray travel sized bottle from the most recent kit I got and pouring it into that. I don't need the full sized travel bottle anyways and it takes up far less in a bag.
Thank you
Hope so our trip is June 20-28…
Enjoy your trip, I find myself thinking about last minute trips a lot. Seems like Southwest makes the big jump in points 2 weeks out. You might be able to pick up something cheaper through Expedia last minute.
