I just saw this article on new security requirements for tablets and readers.
I travel fairly frequently, so this would be a PITA if I weren’t TSA Pre. I thought others who travel might want to know this is coming.
I just saw this article on new security requirements for tablets and readers.
I travel fairly frequently, so this would be a PITA if I weren’t TSA Pre. I thought others who travel might want to know this is coming.
I’ll be traveling internationally in a couple of months and haven’t flown (even domestically) in forever, so I appreciate this! One of the things on My List is to look up current TSA regs.
That’s actually darn good advice if you haven’t flown in just a month.
Things are in a state of flux and their website is definitely aimed at providing the info you need in a form pretty easy for the public to digest.
If you are traveling internationally, you definitely want to check the website for the destination country’s customs, immigration, and aviation security agencies. There are lots of ways to be kosher for leaving the US but not for getting into wherever. Or vice versa.
The airlines are real careful to not carry you without the necessary passport and visa(s), since we get to transport you back for free if we screw that up. OTOH, we have no problem bringing you to e.g. Mexico with 5 laptops in your carry-on and a pistol in your checked luggage. Each of which is a major violation that will see you speaking to the Federales in a windowless room for quite awhile.
I have a friend who is a pilot – he flies 2- or 4-seater planes that he rents from his flying club, e.g., this one. I think he’s close to getting his commercial rating. When I want to fly somewhere, I think I’ll just hire him to take me.
I’m sure you’ll be thinking “This is so much easier than going through security, and less awkward!”
Until the pat-down.
I do wonder how universal these rules will be. I was just on a multi-state trip, and was surprised at the differences from one airport to another. Taking off shoes or not, full body scan or not, even taking off coat! I got through security in Trenton in about five minutes (not too surprising, it’s tiny; their baggage claim is a trailer you walk through).
This rule is already standard in parts of Europe. When I travel I go through a mental checklist: in the US, shoes off; in Europe, shoes stay on, etc. The list used to include the different rules for tablets but I guess now I can follow the same procedure everywhere. A silver lining amid the security theater, I suppose.
Saving the world, one iPad at a time. More security theater to the rescue!
‘Belt off’ is one of the worst - flying from UK to Spain one time, wearing baggy shorts, I was instructed to take off my belt (heavy metal buckle) - so I did, and walked through the arch with one hand clasping the top of my shorts. Of course the sounder went off because of some metal somewhere.
Stand over here and lift your arms up to the sides. Shorts fell to ankles.
Because the TSA is so very, very good at doing their job already, this is definitely going to turn things around.
I travel very frequently too, and for the last year or so Kansas City has always made us screen tablets and “anything bigger than a cell phone.” Many other airports I visit do as well.
Yeah, I plan to wait until about a week before the flight to look up the latest rules/guidelines.
I’m flying in 10 days.
So you’ll be looking them up now, then?
Yep.
Been doing it myself anyway… both unpacking the reader and checking the latest regs as the date approaches.