Originally Posted by Bart

Logic tells me that bottled water purchased inside the sterile area should be permitted. Even if the requirement is that the bottle remain sealed until brought inside the aircraft. I don't know if this has been brought up in the good-idea stage of ongoing procedural reviews.

One good idea would be to change the location of these procedural reviews so that the participants have to fly out of airports to get to this meeting and get a feel for the impact of their decisions. The officers I work with are professional and committed to their duties, but their common gripe is to have the head honchos spend a day, in TSA uniform, on the floor to see what it's like. We do have some who come to the floor, but they stand in the back for a few moments and then wander off. They need to experience a couple of 30-minute rotations in our shoes. Of course, this will never happen, but if it did, then perhaps they would learn to at least survey the field first before coming up with bright ideas in changing our procedures.