A work around to the liquid ban
 

Start visitng different Starbucks in the Terminal post security before the flight and have each family member request a venti(large) ice water in a Starbuck plastic cup with ice and also be sure to ask for a carry holder . Bring some lemon along. Ask for loads of ice and it will melt. You can also ask for extra cups and load up on Starbuck's milk using the same method. Noone has the time to notice you are taking a Venti milk.

As for onboard keep your Starbucks cup and ask the attendant to fill it up for you with Ice.

Any ideas? This is legal since you can see the liquids and you can open the lid as the cup is not sealed. I always ask for more than one venti ice water at the airport locations and this will be my plan on my next trip. I can say a couple of my friends ordered drinks and they need large ice waters. My airport in one terminal has two Starbucks. I can also go to other restaurants and by the time the flight comes I'm hydrated.

Plus the caishers can't remember who brought what. And if you need some tea ask Starbucks for hot water(They usually give it free of charge) then you bring your own tea cups. Ask for it in one of hteir cups and leave a 50 cent tip if you need more they will refill it. Or you can refill it on the plane.

I have another idea. Have a nurse friend install a Foley catheter, and just recycle liquids ...

I'm too lazy to google. What's a Venti milk and venti ice water? And I thought ice was banned onboard???

"Venti" is Starbucks lingo for a 20-ounce cup of anything, used to help people tell the cognoscenti from the riff-raff. (I can't think of any other reason for some of their cutesy terms.) It means "twenty" in Italian.

I have no idea what you're trying to say in the OP.

Go to your doctor and get a prescription for bottled water and carry your own water supply onboard. :D

Man, the lengths people will go to.

There is a survival rule called the rule of threes. Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Basically you're gone after you pass any one of those threes. (yes, yes, I know, mamallian reflex and cold water, but still)

So, people, can we agree that we can survive a 50 minute flight without a quart of water?

Fifty minutes, yes for the vast majority of us. But there are some for whom it is more than a minor inconvenience. For example, this gentleman that no longer has his salivary glands.

And how many flights are scheduled for 50 minutes? Flights between IAH and EWR have that much time built in just for being on the ground.

So you get on board at least 20 minutes before scheduled departure (I had a GA last week say that she was just about to give away my seat and I was there over 15 minutes before scheduled departure), you push back hopefully at scheduled departure, you queue up for taking off, you take off, you ascend to cruising altitude and then, and only then, can you request water. Even then, normally you have to wait for service. So it can easily be more than 50 minutes from the time you board the plane until you can request water. And if there is turbulence, then all bets are off. Descending you have many of the same issues as well. So the window to actually be able to obtain water is narrower than what it first appears.

I don't really understand the OP, but you're not allowed to bring a cup filled with ice.

I thought I missed something in the OP; I had no idea what the person was suggesting. Liquids are, for the most part, banned regardless of what kind of container (or phase) they're in. Of course, the human body isn't regarded as a container, so that's the only place they can be concealed.

Look, of course there are exceptions.

But none (and I am confident in that guesstimate) of those people are posting here, nor are they frequent flyers.

And, frankly, if you've not got salivary glands then perhaps you shouldn't be flying. If you've got (as one fellow on my ORD/DEL plane) dystentary and can't be more than 30 seconds from a bathroom, then perhaps you shouldn't be flying.

There are plenty of situations (bad weather, DFW stackups, whatever) where you're going to go for a long time without any FA attention or access to your bag or the bathroom or whatever, no matter what cabin you're in.

This is exactly the reason why we need to be allowed to bring water onboard. I keep a 1.5L bottle in the seatback pocket in front of me, so it's available on descent, during taxi, and at other times when I can't get my bag out of the overhead. (I also keep some water in the bag under the seat in front of me, so another bottle or two are always accessible there.)

And yes, I am a very frequent flyer, thankyouverymuch. I'm actually more suspicious of you, to be honest, given that you joined FT within the past few weeks.

Why do you feel compelled to force your hydration philosophy on the rest of us? The government has made absolutely no compelling case for why water is prohibited. Every chemist says the London scenario is essentially impossible to pull off.

Yes, you're right; people with disabilities shouldn't be allowed to fly. :rolleyes:

I think you just gave me a great idea for a new trade.
Self service prescription kiosks at the airport. :D

Looks like you would be wrong in your confident guesstimate: