Can someone bring a turkey on an airplane?
Nov 8, 2023, 12:08 pm
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Can someone bring a turkey on an airplane?
Let's assume that the turkey is demised. It's passed on. It's no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to seek its maker. It is a late turkey. It's bereft of life. It rests in peace.
Can one bring it on an AA flight (SFO-DFW-MSY), either fresh (although hopefully on ice) or frozen?
Can one bring it on an AA flight (SFO-DFW-MSY), either fresh (although hopefully on ice) or frozen?
Nov 8, 2023, 12:16 pm
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Nov 8, 2023, 12:27 pm
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If it's on dry ice, make sure it's less than 5.5lbs and that you tell AA.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/...cted-items.jsp
Example
Dry ice for packing perishable itemsAllowed for travel?
YesNotes
You can travel with up to 5.5 lbs/2.5 kgs as carry-on if:- Packed in a vented, hard plastic or heavy gauge styrofoam container
- You tell a ticket or gate agent
Nov 8, 2023, 12:56 pm
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Let's assume that the turkey is demised. It's passed on. It's no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to seek its maker. It is a late turkey. It's bereft of life. It rests in peace. https://youtu.be/vZw35VUBdzo?si=ZCNv2UDZLWbe4_eL
Can one bring it on an AA flight (SFO-DFW-MSY), either fresh (although hopefully on ice) or frozen?
Can one bring it on an AA flight (SFO-DFW-MSY), either fresh (although hopefully on ice) or frozen?
Would it be easier to buy said bird in NOLA after you land or is it a special free range organic heritage bird only available in the Bay Area?
Nov 8, 2023, 1:13 pm
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I agree about putting it in a cooler and checking it as luggage.
If you want to bother with taking it in a carryon, you just have to make sure the ice isn't melted when you go through TSA, and make sure it's packaged where it won't drip onto anyone else's items in flight.
If you want to bother with taking it in a carryon, you just have to make sure the ice isn't melted when you go through TSA, and make sure it's packaged where it won't drip onto anyone else's items in flight.
Nov 8, 2023, 1:28 pm
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I'm pretty sure you can bring a jive turkey on board:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/jive-turkey/
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/jive-turkey/
Nov 8, 2023, 2:31 pm
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Just don't end up like this guy:
The next day, the family gets in line to board the flight to Billings, but at the last minute Hank is required to check the box with his turkey, although he wanted to carry it on the plane but can't because of its awkward shape. The family gets on the plane, and sees the crew loading up all the bags. Unfortunately, when they come to Hank's turkey box, the security dogs bark at it. This makes the crew mistakenly believe that the box contains a bomb. So the squad comes out and explodes the box, ruining the turkey to Hank's horror.
kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Hank%27s_Giving
The next day, the family gets in line to board the flight to Billings, but at the last minute Hank is required to check the box with his turkey, although he wanted to carry it on the plane but can't because of its awkward shape. The family gets on the plane, and sees the crew loading up all the bags. Unfortunately, when they come to Hank's turkey box, the security dogs bark at it. This makes the crew mistakenly believe that the box contains a bomb. So the squad comes out and explodes the box, ruining the turkey to Hank's horror.
kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Hank%27s_Giving
Nov 8, 2023, 3:13 pm
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