No liquid please

That's right, there is a lot of hassle from the air plane operators on the traveller nowadays because of air space terrorism after the 9/11 attack. I think by banning travellers bring along their own soft drinks and food, the industry can sell more of their own food and drinks inside the airplane especially the international flights. Since the travellers are not allowed to drink from their own bottle and lunch boxes, they are required to pay extra dollars for the drink/food on board provided by the airlines. It does make good business sense for the airline in the name of terrorism, to charge travellers more for this and that due to security reasons.

I also thought that some of the security measures at airports these days are silly, such as having to remove your shoes, until I learned why many of them were implemented. There was someone that actually built a bomb into the sole of his shoe, and it was undetectable by a metal detector or by just looking at the shoe. They now have other means to inspect the shoes and detect bombs. There are similar cases of people adding liquid to bottles with pinholes, although how they drain and add the liquids through such a small hole I have no idea, and that is why they have these restrictions.

So you must have had a burst of energy before the flight. :) But seriously, the airport security norms these days can really be crazy and trying on travelers. I had brought some liquids from the duty free airport in Frankfurt. Even though it was brought at the Frankfurt airport, they made me take it out and put it separately before they allowed me to take it. Cheers! Ram

I am an experienced traveler and I know no liquids are allowed pass security. I sometimes pack a two liter bottle of mineral water in my backpack that I check in. In my hand luggage I had some baby's bottles. They made me do a taste test and that was horrible. Sometimes I bring an empty five hundred mil liters bottle to go through security then I refill it from a drinking fountain. If not I buy water bottles at the shop the other side of security but it is pricey.

hi youless wonder why banning liquids? I know the counter terrorism stuff but a bottle of soft drink is not a weapon so why make you drink it? i agree they have to have tight secrurity but they get a bit silly with it.I guess 9/11 changed the security to ridiculous heights, so sad.

hi there youless, when i was still a frequent traveler, i am not really carrying a liquid inside my hand carry baggage as the flight attendant will surely ask me to dispose it. and there are times, i can't afford to throw it just like that since i value much every penny that i spent. so in this regard, i rather not to buy and carry along a liquid with me.

This was for an airplane flight, right? This kind of security has been big in the news here. It is kind of frustrating, isn't it.

I have taken a few times of flight back home from Shanghai. Each time when I got on board, I was asked not to bring any liquid drink with me. As a result, I did the same thing as you do, i.e, drink all of it. The reason why we are so asked, I guess, is for the sake of security while in a plane in case something dangerous happens. Enjoy your summer trip, youless.

thats anywhere these days, some airports are more strict that the others. For some if your bottle is sealed they let you take it, for others you really cant. I had an experience flying out of Sydney airport. I bought some sun lotion and aftersun lotion at Singapore duty free en route to Australia and they were all sealed with a duty free plastic. While it was easy to take the item in Sydney it was difficult to take it out. When I was flying out of Sydney to my next destination which was Fiji, the person at the airport did not allow my cream and sun lotions to be hand carried despite that it was still with its original duty free seal, because it was over 150ml. So, i had to buy some lotion containers up at the pharmacy and poured the liquid into it and they allowed me to carry it. I was furious but cant do anything about it.

Aha, so you are one of the ones in front me in the queue, making it go very slowly? :-) The trick is to bring an empty bottle and then fill it with water somewhere in the "secure" area. Or bring a lot of small bottles in a plastic bag, I haven't tested that yet, but if you follow the rules, you could bring up to 10 100 ml bottles, as long as you can make them fit in the right plastic bag. I've thought about it some times, that I could buy some of the small bottles you get for bringing shampoo etc.

This had been the policy after the 9/11 incident in New York. Airport security personnel are stricter this days and had not allowed any thing which they thought could trigger an explosion or an incident while inside the plane. And anything that is in liquid form is not allowed to be hand carried by passengers.

ya, we can't bring liquid over 100 ml when we go to the airplane..it is a rule...

The same thing had happened to my mom too. We were about to depart Hong Kong when the airport staff took my mom's bottled water from her bag. We just laughed at her because we had told her before that she couldn't put liquid in her bag but she didn't listen.

My motto: rather be safe then sorry. There are lots of liquids terrorist can use for hijacking planes, poisoning people etc. You can put everything into any kind of container. But if you need to bring liquid in the hand baggage, you can do it in ziploc baggies with uniform little bottles... I think there are loads of net sites explaining this better than I would :D.

I know!!!! Since 9/11 things have gotten nutty nutty nutty allover the world. When I left Arizona, I couldn't take a sandwich, or a bottle of water on board the plain, UNLESS I bought it in their shop after customs. Their food sucked, compared to what I culd have had. Not only is it over-doing security, it's a RACKET!! Since you have to buy theirs, they think they are free to over-chage. After drinking the whole bottle ofenergy drink, I bet you were flying high, even without the plane!! I bet you were jumping up and down in your seat the whole time. LOL