USA airline prohibited items list

[Tri Girl]

Hmmmm...can't you just put the little bottle of plastic drops in your top (bra) and bring it on with you? Then again, if they caught you pulling it out, you'd probably get arrested and then you'd have a new set of problems.
I know this is the world we live in now, sad but true. It's unfortunate, but something we have no choice about, and if it is safer, or even if it only makes us feel safer (don't even get me started on what you're allowed to check in vs. what you can carry on board-like something in checked baggage couldn't be used to do bad things), then it's OK with me.
Hope your eyes don't dry out too much! Have a safe flight!

[Trek420]

Duck on Wheels was flying in the "thick of it" on that day. She was in England where she met up with UK Eliphant. Next she e-mailed me from Copenhagen, where she had an hour's wait for flight home to Norway. The next I hear is from our Mom that she arrived in Trondheim....with all her luggage, and even on schedule in spite of all the extra security.

I'll try to get a first hand report.

[Lise]

Glad the Duck got through OK, Trek. Thanks for the update. L.

[Tuckervill]

(don't even get me started on what you're allowed to check in vs. what you can carry on board-like something in checked baggage couldn't be used to do bad things),

They go through your stuff that's checked now, too. That's why you shouldn't lock your bag, because they are going to break the lock to go through it.

It is my understanding that the liquids have to be mixed and that's what causes the explosion...no one would have access to them to mix up the cocktail if they were in the hold.

It is also my understanding that it doesn't take much to destroy a plane after you put a hole in the side--a pressurized jet is basically a can of compressed air after it gets up in the sky. A small whole caused by a minor explosion expands when the pressure is let out, and then the other side of the plane would rupture, too. Catastrophe.

Now let's go FLY! lol.

Karen

[SadieKate]

Cool, see the things I learn. You think I can get lens re-wetting solution in a single dose thingee at your average pharmacy?

Yes, I know all this stuff can go in my checked baggage as I read the TSA site that I linked to, and, no, I cannot give up my lenses as I said above. Yes, I want the world to be safe and I'll go along with a lot of rules but sometimes the rules get written without thought for the real world. Basically, the powers that be should first ask if the item is of medical or functional necessity and then define restrictions. I cannot function without contacts for vision reasons (and there are others who cannot function without them due to medical necessity) and the lens drops are a medical necessity on long flights or when my seat mates insist on blowing the fans. Therefore, the TSA could define eye drops in single dose applicators sufficient for the flight as acceptable.

Lise, I get horribly dry lips also. I'm going to try taking a stick of Blistex Silk & Shine. That's the best "stick" stuff I've found. Otherwise, I use Chapstick Overnight Lip Treatment (during the day!) which is a gel in a tube. It seems that products with Dimethicone are the best for keeping my lips from cracking. I'll let you know if I get through with the stick.

[aka_kim]

I'm waiting for the day when we're stripped down, strip searched, forcibly restrained to our seats, and then given general anesthesia for the duration of the flight. Really. I can't wait.

[chickwhorips]

my motto on flying (considering i have to do that to get out of here to go anywhere)

Time to Spare, Fly by Air

for chapped lips and really dry spots i use Aquaphor. helps big time. i use to use the nighttime stuff, but i like this stuff much more. winter time i have a hard time with dry lips.

[Susarific]

If not taking your eye drops onboard a flight is the worst thing in the world maybe you should count your blessings. You could always take a train, bus or car instead. I have been flying everyday since Thursday and everyone on the flights have been VERY understanding. I didn't hear even one complaint about the new restrictions, which I was surprised about. Also, all airports sell toiletries at stores if you are desperate for something that is banned during your sit time between flights! Unfortunately no one will answer yes to the question "Are you a terrorist?'

[mimitabby]

I'm waiting for the day when we're stripped down, strip searched, forcibly restrained to our seats, and then given general anesthesia for the duration of the flight. Really. I can't wait.

I think the general anesthesia would be better if administered when you enter the airport.

What a big ridiculous royal pain!
Grandmas with lipsticks are NOT planning to blow up any airplanes soon.

[SalsaMTB]

Hmmmm...can't you just put the little bottle of plastic drops in your top (bra) and bring it on with you?

See, this is what I was wondering. I understand the need to eliminate liquids because of the risk, but if it takes such a small amount, you really think the people who want to blow up the plane will not think of taping it to their leg or something? They wouldn't put it in their carry-on, they would just put it in their pocket. You can't catch it in the metal detector. So, are the searching every person that walks through the gate?? I understand the need, but to say my sealed container of eye drops is not OK to bring, but to just let everyone walk to the metal detectors and not pat them down seems a little silly.

[tulip]

For eye drops, can you soak cotton balls in the eye drop solution and then put the cotton balls in a ziplock bag, and then squeeze the eye drops out of the cotton balls when you need them for your eyes?

[caligurl]

For eye drops, can you soak cotton balls in the eye drop solution and then put the cotton balls in a ziplock bag, and then squeeze the eye drops out of the cotton balls when you need them for your eyes?

lol! you don't wear contacts, do you!

[tulip]

lol! you don't wear contacts, do you!

No I don't, but I was not thinking of contact solution; I was thinking of regular eyedrops, like Visine or something.

[caligurl]

No I don't, but I was not thinking of contact solution; I was thinking of regular eyedrops, like Visine or something.

for me the big deal of needing eye drops is for my contacts! the dry airplane air dries them out something wicked! (same goes for the chapstick!!) i'm so glad i don't have any trips planned right now!)

[DeniseGoldberg]

For eye drops, can you soak cotton balls in the eye drop solution and then put the cotton balls in a ziplock bag, and then squeeze the eye drops out of the cotton balls when you need them for your eyes?

That sounds like a good way to get unwanted fibers in your eyes, to say nothing of the fact that it wouldn't be a sanitary method of dispensing eye drops...