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ToolTravel

Page history last edited by Eric Bagai 15 years, 1 month ago

Can't travel with used tools.

Status - undecided

[Submitted by Q, 9/05]

 

The TSA is replacing the FAA in regards to the matter of personal travel. NTSA handles stuff when planes fall out of the sky. The FAA isn't part of the equation anymore.

 

However

  • each airport has an elected official who handles the regulations of that airport, this is to say the regulations of each airport may be different.
  • each airline has their own set of guidelines for what's hazardous, and what is not.

So every airline at every airport has a different set of rules, convenient huh?

 

The TSA could care less if you have fire tools on your body, in your carry on, in your checked baggage. Doesn't matter, they don't fit the profile of the materials they're looking for. The scanners do not alarm with fire tools - I put my own tools through the scanners when I was training TSA personnel on their equipment, and identifying components of IEDs. Fire tools to not bare any resemblance to any of the components of IEDs.

 

It's the airline you are trying to sweet talk into allowing you to travel with used fire tools. Really - it's better that they not see them with their eyeballs. Lay off the TSA, it's not the TSA, it's the airlines. Each airline is different, each airport is different.

 

Disassemble your tools, pack them snuggly in your bag, check your bag. If and when asked, say you're a juggler.

 

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