Bottles of liquor ok in FRA
Aug 5, 2011, 6:35 am
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Bottles of liquor ok in FRA
I'm going to be transiting in FRA and I know that I'll have to clear security when I transit. I would like to bring some wine home with me as a carry on from (not from duty free). Is this ok, or will it be an issue like if I were transiting in the US?
Aug 5, 2011, 7:31 am
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It will most definitely be an issue -- those p----- of s---- already have several bottles of mine, and have hassled me for other things. They are the same completely inflexible, rigid, uptight, stick up the a---, rule-bound f------s that they were when they started WWII -- didn't learn a thing from the experience, as I have learned the hard way.
Aug 5, 2011, 7:32 am
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I think it depends.
You need to find out if you will be screened at the gate before getting on the plane for the US. If it is one of the flights they do the second security screenings at, you will not be allowed to bring it on board. If it's not, it's just like buying a bottle behind security in the US, you can bring it on board.
You need to find out if you will be screened at the gate before getting on the plane for the US. If it is one of the flights they do the second security screenings at, you will not be allowed to bring it on board. If it's not, it's just like buying a bottle behind security in the US, you can bring it on board.
Aug 5, 2011, 2:40 pm
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The other problem is entering the US. Is the OP's destination the landing airport? If so, does it have an exit to the street after customs, or do the pax have to transit the sterile area like ATL? If OP has to go through TSA to get to the street, or if the OP is connecting, the TSA clerkpoint will confiscate for sure.
Bag each bottle in multiple 2 gallon ziplock freezer bags and bubble wrap and place in the middle of your checked bag. 99% chance it will survive unbroken. Theft is another matter.
Aug 5, 2011, 6:53 pm
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Germany is in a (very slow) process of moving from prohibition of liquids to scanning liquids in a specialized scanner. Other Schengen countries are more or less dragging their feet on the issue.
AFAIK, at this point liquids (except the little bag of 100ml bottles) are still prohibited at almost any security check point in Germany, except international connections in Germany with bottles in a sealed duty free bag (including those from outside the EU) with a receipt showing when and where you aquired the items and some sort of time limit (24 hours, I believe). So you would not be OK, since your wine is not in such a bag.
Further easement is planned for 2013, IIRC.
AFAIK, at this point liquids (except the little bag of 100ml bottles) are still prohibited at almost any security check point in Germany, except international connections in Germany with bottles in a sealed duty free bag (including those from outside the EU) with a receipt showing when and where you aquired the items and some sort of time limit (24 hours, I believe). So you would not be OK, since your wine is not in such a bag.
Further easement is planned for 2013, IIRC.
Aug 5, 2011, 7:22 pm
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Flaflyer is right about FRA. The alternative is to use a certain other airport in Germany where it is very easy to avoid the secondary screening required for US-bound flights. PM me and I'll tell you which one it is, and how to do it.