Originally Posted by Kremmen

There is one massive problem with this "discretion" issue. The USA appears to demand that all other countries flights to the USA conform to TSA edicts. With the TSA changing its mind every day and giving discretion, that's just way too hard. Security in other countries will simply take the hardest, most unreasonable line so as to guarantee comformance with the TSA. The TSA edict against small tools is still in place here, even months after the TSA revoked it.

(That whole issue is a complete mess and totally illogical. The authorities have stated that there is no evidence at all of Australia being involved in any of the latest scare. There is no reason why we shouldn't carry liquids on board trans-pacific flights to the US and then repack them into checked luggage for domestic US connections. Instead, we are being forced to carry no liquids on planes to the USA, because the USA somehow believes it should have jurisdiction over other countries and our governments are too gutless to tell them where to shove it. ... or, more importantly, have the same FUD agenda.)