Totally Beee Ssss. All about what is convenient for the TSA, not their customers.

If a person has need of a medication, we assume it is necessary for maintaining thier health and/or life. Any smart pax has in their carry on all medications needed for their trip plus a week extra. Only backup or extra in their checked bag. Checked bags get lost.

How long is the flight? Schedule says DTW NRT is 14 hr. But flight is late incoming, there is a 2 hr delay fixing the broke widget in the cockpit, the plane has to land in ANC to refuel and wait 5 hr. because of the volcano, and there is a 3 hr. screening for NotTheSwine Flu in NRT. The 14 hr. trip is now over 25 hr. and you have not left the airport yet.

A pax on a 2 day business trip has only enough meds for the flight to make the TSA happy. Checked bag is lost. Does the pax go to his meeting and risk croaking, or spend the first day trying to get an expensive/difficult replacement prescription in a foreign country, ruining the trip?

"Your flight is only 8 hr long. In 9 hr. you will be reunited with your checked bag." Bee Sss. The 9-11™ crowd is forgetting, well, 9-11. 40 jumbos and 7000 pax dropped in on Halifax for from 2 to 4 days. Even if they unloaded bags, yours might be lost or rerouted on another plane that landed in Gandor. Do you want to bet your life that the Halifax MaandPa Drug Store has an unlimited supply of every rare prescription on earth that 7000 pax might be out of because they "only carried enough for the flight"?

Dear "TSA Representative":

I hope when you retire you travel and follow your own advice. Carry enough of your special medication "for the duration of the flight" only. I hope the airline loses your bag and 20 min. after you land in your island resort a 8.0 earthquake destroys the airport. Do blog us and let us follow your adventures at convincing the locals that getting a replacement prescription for one stupid Gringo is their high priority in the next 24 hr. before you croak.