Originally Posted by
TSO1973
Could be that the view of the Kindle was clear enough. As a rule, they are treated just like laptops and should be removed from the bag. They are very easy to spot.
To a previous post, laptops left in the nylon sleeves are good to go as long as there is nothing else in the sleeve. When you have cables, flashdrives, whatever else in the sleeve, that's where you run into a problem.
Uh, no, not all the time. The problem is the TSOs who aren't trained properly and/or ignore their training and/or on a power trip. At EWR of all places at Thanksgiving, I had my laptop in a laptop sleeve by itself in a bin and was required by the TSO to take it out of the sleeve. He said I was wrong when I advised that the rules allow laptops in sleeves. And guess what? He WAS the TRAINER. This was a training lane.
I've had EWR TSOs demand that I take out a Nintendo DSI and a portable iPod player also even though the rules said that they don't need to come out of the bag. Consistent inconsistency should not apply to these simple rules.
