TSA banned items

[disneyfreakmike]

Has anyone actually gone through the entire list of stuff you can't carry on the plane? B4 we left in June I wanted to make sure we wouldn't have any problems going through security, so I checked their website. I about rolled laughing! No joke...cattleprods, ninja stars, cleavers, swords, and spear guns! Can you even imagine someone trying to get through a checkpoint with a cattleprod? Anyway....it gave me a chuckle!

 

[5boyz]

Hee Hee Hee I know really!!!!


Ok now a question...my dh has high blood pressure is he allowed to take his medication on the plane? He does not want to pack it INCASE his luggage gets lost and he is without. Do you know where I can find out???? Thanks!!!

 

[Jestocost]

Medication is exempt from the other requirements. For a full listing of the permitted and prohibited items, see the TSA Web site.

 

[JanB]

Prescription medication is fine. But it is recommended that you take it in the labeled prescription bottle (or box or whatever it comes in) -- As opposed to dispensing smaller amounts into a pill box or zip lock. I just put my prescriptions into a separate zip-lock bag, and laid that bag separately into the screening bins. That bag would NOT count as your 1-quart bag for your 3-oz. liquids.

 

[ParrotBill]

Prescription medication is fine. But it is recommended that you take it in the labeled prescription bottle (or box or whatever it comes in) -- As opposed to dispensing smaller amounts into a pill box or zip lock. I just put my prescriptions into a separate zip-lock bag, and laid that bag separately into the screening bins. That bag would NOT count as your 1-quart bag for your 3-oz. liquids.

For pills, when traveling in the US, there is no need to keep in original bottles or set out for the screeners. They don't care and don't need to see those. (Different story entering other countries)

If you have any liquid prescription medicines, or sharps, then you should definitly put those in a clear bag and set them out for the screeners.

When I read the list I found good news: over the counter medicines are allowed for carry-on in addition to your 3-1-1 bag if you put in a bag by themselves and declare on entry to security and again at X-ray.

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

Even better news: This list includes the follow as permitted in your carry-on:

Toy Transformer Robots

My day is complete now!

 

[5boyz]

Thanks sooo much every one my dh is already crying about flying and this is just adding to my headache... .He just emailed me this morning to tell me if he left buffalo on friday morning by train he would be there before us on sat and he quoted the price too!!! so I am trying to cater to him with every thing else.

 

[JanB]

For pills, when traveling in the US, there is no need to keep in original bottles or set out for the screeners. They don't care and don't need to see those. (Different story entering other countries)

If you have any liquid prescription medicines, or sharps, then you should definitly put those in a clear bag and set them out for the screeners.

When I read the list I found good news: over the counter medicines are allowed for carry-on in addition to your 3-1-1 bag if you put in a bag by themselves and declare on entry to security and again at X-ray.

I am sure that you are probably correct concerning the meds. I packaged my meds that way on advice from a TSA "officer" (or whatever they call themselves). At the time that I travelled, the TSA website did not state clearly exactly how to handle the meds, and whether there were different requirements between OTC and prescription.

And -- even if it were to be stated clearly on the website -- I DO know that the TSA screening "rules" are not carried out consistently in various airports. You run into some screeners who are pretty down-to-earth about stuff. You run into some who are on power trips. And you also run into some Barney Fifes. So I suppose I tend to ask myself WWBFS -- "What Would Barney Fife Say?". I'm overly-cautious that way.

 

[JanB]

Thanks sooo much every one my dh is already crying about flying and this is just adding to my headache... .He just emailed me this morning to tell me if he left buffalo on friday morning by train he would be there before us on sat and he quoted the price too!!! so I am trying to cater to him with every thing else.

Your husband's blood pressure might do better if you let him take the train --- alone!

 

[Jestocost]

Thanks sooo much every one my dh is already crying about flying and this is just adding to my headache... .He just emailed me this morning to tell me if he left buffalo on friday morning by train he would be there before us on sat and he quoted the price too!!! so I am trying to cater to him with every thing else.

And of course Amtrak always runs on schedule and is never late…

 

[5boyz]

JanB Thanks but he will fly he just doesn't like flying but he does it!!!

 

[disgram]

DH and his mother just flew to Orlando a couple weeks ago. The "searcher" at MCO took my MIL's meds that I had put into a large ziploc bag and put them into separate bags! There was no reason given for this. I had left everything in the orginal containers. This was the only thing that they touched.

 

[ParrotBill]

If you are there early enough, and you are subjected to any discussion of non-liquid medicines, politely ask for the site supervisor to bring a copy of the rules related to non-liquid prescription meds. There are none. (note though that non-prescription gel capsules ARE subject to the 3-1-1 rules, and prescription gelcaps are subject to the liquid prescription medicines rule)

Read and print this and bring it if you have any concerns:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

We can't allow self-important TSA screeners to make up rules. And if you are subjected to something inappropriate politely hold your ground.

Story:

When the TSA has just implemented the majority of new rules, we went through security in Orlando coming home. We always place our daughter between us going through the metal detector so she is with one parent or another.

I went first. I went through clean, but they "randomly" selected me to go to secondary search. He motioned me to move into the search area. I said "I need to wait for my daughter to step through." He got surly right away and told me in no uncertain terms I needed to COMPLY with the requirement to move IMMEDIATELY to the search area.

Without raising my voice, I said "You cannot separate my child from her parents in an airport" and stood still. Everything at the scanning station, and those adjacent to us, came to a standstill and every TSA officer turned their attention to our "situation."

The TSA officers repeated his demand for immediate compliance. I calmly repeated that my daughter must remain with a parent and asked that he get a supervisor.

Somehow a supervisor 50 feet away had become aware of the situation, and what it was about. He gave a hand signal and another TSA officer waved my daughter through, and told me to take her with me.