Comments on: Flying high http://www.elliott.org/the-travel-critic/flying-high/ The travel troubleshooter. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Julie http://www.elliott.org/the-travel-critic/flying-high/comment-page-1/#comment-21728 Julie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:16:44 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/flying-high/#comment-21728 When I was returning home from Florida, I forgot about the limits on liquids (it was right after they started being imposed) and tried to carry on a pint of tequila and a large bottle of key lime juice (not to drink on board, but because I thought packing it in my luggage was a sure way to get the bottle broken and the contents spilled all over my clothes). Of course TSA confiscated both bottles. If anyone wanted to sneak booze onboard a plane, they'd only get shampoo bottle-sized containers past security. I guess for some people that would be plenty to get themselves smashed, but it does impose a limit of sorts. When I was returning home from Florida, I forgot about the limits on liquids (it was right after they started being imposed) and tried to carry on a pint of tequila and a large bottle of key lime juice (not to drink on board, but because I thought packing it in my luggage was a sure way to get the bottle broken and the contents spilled all over my clothes). Of course TSA confiscated both bottles. If anyone wanted to sneak booze onboard a plane, they’d only get shampoo bottle-sized containers past security. I guess for some people that would be plenty to get themselves smashed, but it does impose a limit of sorts.

]]> By: Mekhong Kurt http://www.elliott.org/the-travel-critic/flying-high/comment-page-1/#comment-4034 Mekhong Kurt Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:40:47 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/flying-high/#comment-4034 Easy. Two-drink limit, period. And I'm a drinker. But I adjusted to non-smoking flights, though I'm a smoker. And if airline crews don't already have the authority to do so (which I imagine they do), ARREST anyone they figure out has smuggled booze aboard. This got a lot more personal for me when a fellow passenger drunk out of his mind got verbally abusive of the flight attendant, who quite properly declined to serve him yet another drink -- he'd had something like 5 or 6 in about 20 minutes on a regional flight of less than 1-1/2 hours -- and he threatened her physically. A number of us stood up and shut him up. The pilot came out, and way too kindly (IMHO) declined arresting him. Heck -- he could have put him in the ejection seat as far as I'm concerned! Well, okay, not literally, but the Captain would have been well within his moral rights (and, I believe, legal) to order the guy's hadncuffing and turning over to the police at our destination. Which happened to be Vientiane, Laos. Police there love that sort of thing! Easy. Two-drink limit, period. And I’m a drinker. But I adjusted to non-smoking flights, though I’m a smoker. And if airline crews don’t already have the authority to do so (which I imagine they do), ARREST anyone they figure out has smuggled booze aboard.

This got a lot more personal for me when a fellow passenger drunk out of his mind got verbally abusive of the flight attendant, who quite properly declined to serve him yet another drink — he’d had something like 5 or 6 in about 20 minutes on a regional flight of less than 1-1/2 hours — and he threatened her physically. A number of us stood up and shut him up. The pilot came out, and way too kindly (IMHO) declined arresting him. Heck — he could have put him in the ejection seat as far as I’m concerned! Well, okay, not literally, but the Captain would have been well within his moral rights (and, I believe, legal) to order the guy’s hadncuffing and turning over to the police at our destination. Which happened to be Vientiane, Laos. Police there love that sort of thing!

]]>