Carrying On About Carryons
Taking it With You
Q1: My wife and I have a trip planned. Can you tell or direct me to the Internet site regarding carry-on items on a plane?
— Dom A.
A. Hi Dom, you need to consider security and an airline's baggage policy, so I'd say visit two Web sites: the Transportation Safety Administration's (TSA) and your ticketed airline's.
Start with the TSA, the department within the Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for securing the nation's transportation systems. Next, access your airline's Web site for carry-on luggage rules. Take a look at the examples below and you should be good to go.
TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items
Examples of Airline carry-on baggage rules
British Airways
United Airlines
— Dom A.
A. Hi Dom, you need to consider security and an airline's baggage policy, so I'd say visit two Web sites: the Transportation Safety Administration's (TSA) and your ticketed airline's.
Start with the TSA, the department within the Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for securing the nation's transportation systems. Next, access your airline's Web site for carry-on luggage rules. Take a look at the examples below and you should be good to go.
TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items
Examples of Airline carry-on baggage rules
British Airways
United Airlines
What's Your Favorite Travel Whine Wine?
Q2: What is the airline carry-on policy regarding bottled wine? In the past, if you went wine tasting on your vacation, you could bring unopened wine home on the plane in a carryon pack (less than a case). With the new regulations, what are the rules? Can you still do this or do you have to mail it?
— Pam M..
A: Hi Pamela, this is my first enophilic travel-related question. Unfortunately, the TSA won't let you carry wine on board whether bottled, boxed or in a sippy cup; that is unless it has been purchased at the airport within the same security area in which you are boarding your flight, say from a duty-free shop. Sadly, liquids are not allowed through security, with the exception the three-ounce rule.
Now if you do bring back wine in your luggage, socks and sweaters make poor substitutes for bubble wrap. In fact, I highly recommend using specially designed styro-insert boxes, which are usually available from the purveyors of grapey libations. Each is specifically made for traveling with or shipping wine, otherwise burgundy may become your (and every other passenger's) favorite new baggage color.
As far as mailing it back, there are interstate liquor laws, of which I am no expert (with the exception of the Illinois-Indiana border, familiar to me in my college years). I have found one handy site wine.com where they spell it out for you by state.
And after all this, you may want to verify that your imported wine is not already sitting on a shelf at your local Safeway. Bottoms up, cheers and salud!
— Pam M..
A: Hi Pamela, this is my first enophilic travel-related question. Unfortunately, the TSA won't let you carry wine on board whether bottled, boxed or in a sippy cup; that is unless it has been purchased at the airport within the same security area in which you are boarding your flight, say from a duty-free shop. Sadly, liquids are not allowed through security, with the exception the three-ounce rule.
Now if you do bring back wine in your luggage, socks and sweaters make poor substitutes for bubble wrap. In fact, I highly recommend using specially designed styro-insert boxes, which are usually available from the purveyors of grapey libations. Each is specifically made for traveling with or shipping wine, otherwise burgundy may become your (and every other passenger's) favorite new baggage color.
As far as mailing it back, there are interstate liquor laws, of which I am no expert (with the exception of the Illinois-Indiana border, familiar to me in my college years). I have found one handy site wine.com where they spell it out for you by state.
And after all this, you may want to verify that your imported wine is not already sitting on a shelf at your local Safeway. Bottoms up, cheers and salud!
Have a question for Tom?
Tom Conway, whose favorite "whine" is, "They told me this was a nonstop!" looks forward to your questions, comments and tips.
Tom Conway, whose favorite "whine" is, "They told me this was a nonstop!" looks forward to your questions, comments and tips.
Comments
Concerning both Toronto and bringing wine in a carry on....in the Niagara Falls area, specifically Niagara on the Lake, there are some amazing wines being made called "Ice Wines". They are very sweet, almost like a Schnaps, but with a true wine body and character. The grapes are allowed to freeze on the vine and are processed while frozen. This allows the sugars to be carried through the fermentation process more or less intact. It's quite expensive, but delicious and unique. Generally sold in half bottles, probably due to the high cost. Makes a terrific gift.
Posted by: Tim Andrews | May 10, 2007 2:35 PM