Checked or hand?
 

I would like to take my Father in Law (in the US) a bottle of malt whisky :p for a present, i am debating if i should put the bottle (in a tube) in my hand / carry on or checked bags for a trans Atlantic flight?
Any advice please.

Better safe than sorry. Hand luggage, I asked a similar question a few years ago and got the hand luggage vote.

Got to be hand luggage and why not buy it at Duty Free on your way out of the country after check-in?

Choose Scotch whisky if you can ^ I much prefer them to anything else.

Hey guys, thanks for the advice, its packed in the carry on ready for Thursday...

By the way, it IS Malt...and a rather good 21 year old one at that, thats why i am taking it and not buying at duty free

Interesting...my grandfather gave me some money for my 21st birthday and asked me to get something good with it. So far that has been 5.5% interest for 5months but I was thinking of getting some decent malt with some of it, a 21yr old seemed appropriate. What did you get? (sorry for being nosey!)

I am taking Glenfiddich Millenium Reserve 21 Year Old. I bought two bottles at a bargain price and i would put the 'spare' one to a good use.
If you want a good Malt, any of the big 6 are good ones, though i would recommend Talisker..to be taken neat, with a drop of water, or just ice. Put anything else in it and you are a 'heathen'!..