Originally Posted by
gingersnaps
More people should give that speech TSA employees and private screeners. TSA employees have zero business trying to determine what amount of medical liquids a person should be allowed.
Originally Posted by
chollie
TSA also should not be in the business of deciding which non-liquid medicines are permitted and which are not. There is no acceptable reason, not even 'screener discretion', for confiscating a pax's nitro pills.
I'd simplify both of these.
TSA's one and only job is to screen for WEI — no more, no less — given current tech. If they are capable of determining that something is not WEI, then it should be allowed through. It's the airline's job, not TSA's, to enforce any of the (very few) applicable FAA regulations (e.g. re oxygen cylinders).
TSA should never refuse to screen something and never refuse to allow it through if it screening determines it to not be WEI. The end. Solves both problems easily.
There are some very rare instances where actual WEI — like compressed oxygen cylinders — is also medically necessary. For those, I'm okay with having some special provisions — namely, FAA's.
You want to carry a gallon of lube, a year's supply of nitro pills not prescribed to you, and 2 oz of gatorade in a 30 oz bottle? IDGAF, and the law doesn't allow TSA to either.