BYOB on the airplane

[prb]

CATSA doesn't seem to care from my experience. I set off the metal detector and was asked "Do you have a belt?", said yes and was on my way. But on the flight back they x-rayed my laptop, camera, mp3 player, wallet all separately in their own plastic bins.

[KymmyKyller]

When I flew through Palm Springs International, it was a quick, 5 minute thing. They really didn't even check my bags for liquids. After getting to the terminal thingy, I bought a coke and was allowed to bring the bottle on board.

It was a different story for Las Vegas' airport though! While they let me go through the business class line (even though I was in coach), the man there was, while nice, very suspicious. Scared the hell out of me since I didn't do anything wrong and was thinking, "Oh..crap, I don't want to be like Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 3! No!"

After that, it went pretty smooth.

[PepperElf]

what sucks is when you deal with the ones who don't realize you can't run film thru the xray machine.

sometimes we had trouble with that on the ship too when they made crew run their stuff through an xray machine before going on board.

(tho on a funny side note, they once wanted to scan his backpack... he took out the film first and handed them a now-empty bag. they were rather disappointed lol)

[Chromatix]

To be fair, consumer-grade film and modern X-ray machines are okay together. As are digital cameras.

But if I were a professional photographer using film, I would keep them apart.

[Greenday]

On my recent trip to Kentucky, I went from Newark, to Cincinnati, to Nashville, then did the reverse on the way back. You can't bring drinks in from outside the airport. But if you buy something at the terminal, it's perfectly ok to bring on the plane. I would know, I was sitting at a bar while waiting for my 1pm flight out of Nashville.

[EvilEmpryss]

1)How did that get past security?

It was only a 3 oz beer and was in a 1-qt ziploc baggie?

'Cuz we all know that liquids inside plastic baggies are safe while gel shoe inserts will bring down a plane.

Ignore the fact that gel bra inserts are not banned, and I can get a cup of fluid into each one and then seal it back up with a tire patch kit. (Yeah, I tested it, and you can't tell I've got 'em in my bra, either.)

[Munkie]

You can purchase whatever drink you want once you're through security in my airport. You absolutely cannot bring liquids through - even if you just purchased them. All the staff on the departure level before security are trained to inform the passengers that they will not be allowed to bring their just-purchased drink through, however, there are other stores on the other side they can purchase drinks at for the exact same price.

There is also a duty-free that is almost always closed (only open 2 hours before an international flight... and that means going somewhere that isn't North America!), and a wine shop. The duty free sells hard liqour, tobacco products and various things like perfume and over-priced cheap-ass leather handbag knockoffs. No beer. The wine shop sells wine and hard liqour. No beer.

All the beer sold in the airport is purchased within a restaurant-esque establishment and must be consumed within said establishment. You could be rip-roaring drunk - but you would miss your flight because you would be denied the privilige of boarding and subsequently escorted outside, where you could potentially spend the night in the nearest cheap hotel in Leduc. Or Nisku. Both are closer than Edmonton.