Originally Posted by Thumper
Actually, you may be flaunting your ignorance more than anything. On a recent trip to Cancun, we were faced with the situation ofthere being no food to eat for several days, unless we brought it with us. Otherthan Passover week, there don't appear to be any kosher options in Cancun.(for kosher options in Israel, see the other thread about kosher delis).
Anyway, we needed to secure an import permit in order to bring food into Mexico (insert your "Montezuma's revenge joke here --> [ ] ). We flew from BDL to DFW to Cancun, and with the meat wrapped properly, there was no problem. The hotel had even handledthis situation before.
The point being, that it is not unheard of to fly with frozen meat.
As to things to bring to Israel, I had a nasty incident in 1974 when a bottle of Heinz katsup broke in my suitcase and punctured the bag it was wrapped in.
He's the one that's ignorant? You should stop being cheap and get it FedEx'ed to wherever you need it to, because those shippers use dry-ice to keep the meat frozen, plus they know how to actually pack and ship meat (ie: not in a suitcase).
Although aircraft pits get cold, majority of them are heated. Add a connection where your bag is going to sit around somewhere, and you're just asking for a problem to happen.
If I come across a box or bag soaked in meat juice (which I have), I'm throwing that on the ramp under the sun to dry off for a few days and leaving it for a customer service agent to worry about because I'm not going to put that on a flight. We also have some FOD (
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aer...aero_01/s/s01/) cans on the ramp that look under-used, too.
I doubt any other baggage handlers would be as sympathetic, either.