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Don't you want to start earning frequent flyer miles and hotel points at government expense as well? :D

Except when the TSO insists.

:(

Why have rules if the screeners either don't know them or refuse to follow them? Like in this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=606339

Question: I have two relatives who wear leg braces. Screening has been hell for both of them for a long time.

Do people who wear leg braces that depend on the integrity of the brace-shoe relationship have to remove shoes?

Strictly speaking a brace in not a prosthetic.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

They should not have to remove shoes, no. Here is the TSA guidance for "Persons with Prosthetic Devices, Casts, Body Braces": http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...rial_1370.shtm.

Also read further down the page for "Orthopedic Shoes, Support Appliances, and Other Exterior Medical Devices".

This isn't really just a TSA thing though - returning things at Best Buy (even if they're broken at the fault of Best Buy) requires the same behavior.

humans!

Is there a Visio doc somewhere that explains the reporting/authority between a FSD/STSO/GSC? And why would notifying the airlines help?

I'm sure it looks something like this:

http://www.19.5degs.com/element/16536.php

:D

Katja, sorry you had to remove your shoes but again, your shouldn't have been told that. take a look at this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=592162 and look at my posts starting with post #10 and see what i have done. in addtion, i carry not only the printout from the tsa website but also this http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/special_needs_memo.pdf (courtesy of GeoGirl's post #661 in this thread) and anything short of compliance by the tsa with what is reference ond page 3 means i call a leo immediatley (see post 15 from the above thread).

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So the rules can be quoted to Congress, the media or anyone else who needs smoothing. The bit about "more in the breach than the observance" is usually omitted, however. :(

(yet another) question for Bart
 

Bart-

forgive me but as goalie-sis would say, i'm having a bald moment....

in between the full liquid ban and the recenetly revised "3oz"limit, i was allowed to carry nose drops/spray in my briefcase as long as it was less than 4oz. i'm all set to go this w/e with my baggie and 3oz or less containers (btw, edge shaving cream travel size is 2.75 oz but i digress....) but my question is.....can i still carry my 2.5oz nose drops/spray (used to help clear my sinuses & pop my ears) in my briefcase or is this one of the "declared items". my crazy rationale is that once i'm past the checkpoint, everything in my baggie gets removed and put in my toiltery case in my wheels and stored in the overhead and i'd rather leave the nose drops in the briefcase as that sits under the seat in frnt of me. just curious and sorry for such a silly question (and fwiw, the nose drops live in my briefcase and were never looked at with a "bag check" during either the full or modified (pre 30z rules))

isn't that still the declared OUTSIDE of baggie items, e.g. they are not limited by size just by "medical" or whatever nonsense requirement that TSA indicated. You still need to pull it out to show them but it's "legal" regardless if it fits or not.

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