On our flight DFW/FLL Saturday night, the male FA had his Pepsi drinks in plain sight when he sat down to have his dinner at the back of the plane after they served the first round of drinks.

There was a big paper cup of Pepsi logo et al, like those you would see in fastfood chain, sat on the traytable of middle seat and he was eating a burger or something like that.

I had to stand there for several minutes waiting for the bathroom and watching him drinking it with a straw.

I seriously doubt anyone would bring an empty Pepsi paper cup onto an AA plane just because he needed the cup for holding Coke or other drinks...

Did they now allow carry-on luggages as usual for flights from U.S. to U.K.?

We are totally out of touch with news after 2 weeks roadtrip thru the Northwest but we need to find out as we are leaving for LHR in 9 days.

Flight crew on domestic U.S. flights are exempt from these regulations, although several have opined that it is great that the rest of us must follow them.

A stupid exception to an even stupider rule made by two extremely stupid morons, Comrades Hawley and Chertoff, who are too cowardly to fly with those whom they harass.

Is that a call for a durian ban? Never!

So if my girlfriend is a FA on the flight and they are exempt from the rules... she brings on two sandwiches and a couple of drinks, waits till the seatbelt sign comes off and then brings me one of the sandwiches and one the drinks what happens? hehheheheh

Likely not much - unless one of the other passengers reports her for it? These days - who knows?? Everyone seems to be reporting everything!

I love durian -- wish there were a way to bring fresh slices of it to enjoy inflight!

Connect in BKK. Durian-a-plenty.

So I have to admit something.
I inadvertently had a bottle of H20 in my roll-a-board this week.
Despite "Condition Retarded" being in full force, and actually having my bag run through twice, the offending agent was not identified or confiscated. I only realized this once I unpacked at home.
So either this is complete Kabuki, screeners think it's nonsense, screeners can't clearly visualize liquids in the Xray, or all of the above.

This happened to my s.o. yesterday in Vegas. We waited 45 mins through security for C terminal. She had a bottle of water from the casino's gym in her pocketbook and totally forgot about it. She put the bag through the xray and they said nothing. We did not realize it until we were about 40 mins from landing when she went in her bag to get a piece of gum. The funny thing is any TSA agent could have looked down into her bag and would have seen the water since it does not close very well.

Lastly, I talked to a guy while waiting in the line to board on the outbound to Vegas last week, he travels every week for business, and said the ban does not impact him since he just puts his deodarant and toothpaste in his pockets when he goes through security. Its time to end the ban, I have seen more blatant violations of the ban in the past two weeks of travel, its like "what's the point."

Exactly.

What is the point, Comrades Chertoff and Hawley? None, except for your own little sick perversions. :td:

It's only a matter of time before a flight crew member gets made an example of by being charged with "smuggling" a bottle of water or a container of deodorant on board for a passenger. :mad:

I'd call it a successful display of TSA idiocy.

Pepsi makes it through security just as easily as water.

While waiting in the gate area for our international flight last week, my wife opens her handbag and realizes that she neglected to dispose of a half-full bottle of Pepsi prior to the TSA security screening.

She forgot she had it, nobody caught it, I drank it (to remove the incriminating evidence ;) ).

I am waiting here in IAH Term. E this morning and just went through security. I dutifully removed all of my liquids from my toiletries bag at home except for my contact lens solution. The bag went through with nary a peep. There is no way that the x-ray screener could determine what the liquid was.

And I am happy to report that my jelly donut in its separate Shipley's bag made it through without an issue. :D