If you want the email for the Customer Service Manager from the TSA for SJC, let me know via private message.

I emailed her about the same exact issue last week in Terminal A - and she apologized and said she would clear it up.

This is one of the "bad" features of the "american" measuring system--the same word for two different types of measures. One oz is a volume oz and the other a weight oz. I think the tsa rules (for liquids) refer to volume oz's. 33.8 oz (volume) = 1 liter. [In the metric system liter (litre) is a volume measure, gram is a weight measure--different words.]

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Ah, but did she say when ? Apparently not.Which we have known all along. First time they have actually said as much though, I think.

Quick, retrain that err... lady - some SSI violation here shurely :rolleyes:

Just wanted to let everyone know that I made it through security in IND yesterday with my mini, hand-labeled and unlabeled bottles. : )

GG

I had no problems today in SFO. Just a quick glance and they where deemed fine.

in fact i had a pleasant experience. The checkpoint was lightly trafficked and the girl at the metal detector wanted to chat for a bit. We spent a good 10 minutes talking (not about security), it was quite pleasant. There was no other customer there during that whole time.

Yippie! Did they question them at all?

The Ooze Test
 

In Seattle, I saw TSA doing the ooze test. Someone had a container of something that might have been gel. So they held it upside down for a minute. If it OOZED, then it's a gel, otherwise it was OK as a solid.

So I will now freeze everything right before going to the airport.

I tried that logic @ BOS with my gel deodorant: it's one piece! :(

Nope. I wrote a full report here, post #1734.

:)
GG

I think that the TSA should place on its homepage a picture of this procedure being done. Heck, I would like to have a picture of that. Think of the possibilities. :D

Late to the party, since I just got back from the Bahamas, but yes, that's exactly what happened at EWR. My shampoo in a travel-sized 3 oz Nalgene bottle was confiscated because it was not labeled. Or, as the screener said, "I know it's not a threat, but I am taking it anyway".

Travel with unmarked containers at your own risk. It seems to be very much about what the screener thinks the rule is.

Dear Bart,

I just wanted to confirm something that we were told at the airport this past weekend and confirmed by the TSA agent at the airport. Penn State's Ag program produces great ice cream and packs it to go in dry ice. We didn't buy any since we could never imagine that ice cream, not alone dry ice, would be allowable under the new rules.

However, a guy on our flight was able to bring the ice cream in a bag on board in his carry-on as long as there was no more than 4 lbs. of dry ice. The concern seemed to be more over the dry ice than the ice cream.

Does this work?

Thanks in advance.

WHAT? What did you say/do? Did you ask for a supervisor?

Remember: bring your prohibited items list printout and Bart's instructions to speak with a GSC so you know what to do and say when this happens. That is NOT right!!! Plus, it should NOT be up to the screeners to interpret the rules. ARGH!!! :mad:

GG <- my troublyness seems to be increasing, LOL

Is that a Stephen Colbert word?