BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???

Subject: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:51 AM

Well, here's the question. Can the P-Vine pack a bottle of brandy in her suitcase to be checked in at the airport? And if so, does it have to be unopened? Flasks? Etc.?

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:53 AM

Just flew into the US from South America. US Customs agent on departue inspection found a bottle in my checked luggage, and told me to put it in my carry-on! Sh'okay by me ociffer.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:55 AM

I don't know the rules - but I know my grandmother would have answered you "She CAN, but the real question is "MAY she?"."

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:02 AM

Okay, MMario, "MAY" she????????

Geeze.......

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Amos
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:04 AM

As far as I know, yes.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Morticia
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:04 AM

have you seen the way baggage handlers throw suitcases about?If P-vine doesn't want all her clothes to smell like a four ale brewery, I'd put it in a carry on bag if I were her.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Allan C.
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:05 AM

In my travels since 911 I had no problems with alcohol in checked baggage. However, they changed some rules early this year. Check with the airline.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:10 AM

sorry Bobert...*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:33 AM

Well I brought back a huge bottle of Jim Beam, and an equally large bottle of vodka from the US, well wrapped in towels etc, and in my suitcase no problems. That is until I got home and opened them!
John

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:24 AM

I have a question that I didn't want to start a new thread for--maybe this one will work. I'm flying from Dallas to Calgary on Saturday, returning Tuesday. Is my driver's license enough ID these days? Do I need to take anything else? (My passport has probably expired, but it also has my former married hyphenated name that no longer matches my driver's license).

I was told that it isn't difficult getting into Canada, that it's harder to get back into the U.S.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:29 AM

I'm told if they won't accept your driver's id alone a recent pay stub showing address and name helps.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:34 AM

Thanks! I'm really worried that my Washington State accent might be considered a fake, since I'm living in Texas. . . I don't want to confuse those folks!

:-D

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: maire-aine
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 12:34 PM

I'd take along the expired passport anyway. I live in Detroit & cross over to Windsor ONT often, and I always carry my passport. I've only had to show id once, but the US-customs-guy said it was the best id I could show, even though a drivers license would have been okay.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 01:56 PM

Bring the passport!
I've had delays coming back in from Canada from the U.S. Immigration authorities.
Just doing their jobs.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 02:00 PM

Bring the passport. Then, as soon as you can, get it renewed. Great ID for 'most anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: open mike
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 03:32 PM

YOU'D THINK THAT A BOTTLE COULD BE A WEAPON...
IF YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE KNITTING NEEDLES ON A PLANE,
WHY ALLOW A BOTTLE? BUT PROBABLY THEY DO BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IS
SOLD AT THE TAX-FREE, DUTY FREE SHOPS IN AIR PORTS ALL THE TIME..
THOUGH I HAVE SEEN SOME POOR PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT LOADS OF SAUSAGE
AND SALAMI TYPE THINGIES HAVE THEM CONFISCATED AND TRASH-CANNED
AS THEY CAME INTO U.S. FROM HOLLAND...MAD COW SCARE? U.S.D.A.
INSPECTORS, NOT CUSTOMS...

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 03:44 PM

How do they tell the difference between a bottle of whisky and a bottle of nitro-glycerine?

I suppose the baggage handlers can be relied on to demonstrate the fact, if it's nitro-glycerine.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Peace
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 03:57 PM

I would think NOT, because it is inflammable. Thus the advice to take it in carry-on. Call the airline and ask. My guess is no.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 04:32 PM

I understand very few US Citizens have passports, so I can't imagine the authorities would be likely to insist on it as an ID. (Isn't even having a passport considered a bit suspect by some people over there?)

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Willie-O
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 04:51 PM

For a U.S. citizen to enter Canada:
A driver's licence is not technically sufficient but the passport is not required.

What is required is proof of citizenship, or at least of birthplace which can be taken as evidence of citizenship (I'm assuming your birthplace is in the U.S). Your licence doesn't show either. A birth certificate and driver's licence should be sufficient, both ways.

I don't think an expired passport is a good thing to use. It will lead to additional scrutiny and boring questions about why you are presenting an expired document...

Have a good trip.
W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:22 PM

Meats (or produce) have never been allowed. It's not Mad Cow Disease, it's the fact that the sausages or whatever may not have been inspected at all, or other countries allow things like lymph nodes and spinal chords in their sausages.

Re: Canada: I've never needed anything but an official type of picture ID, and it IS harder to get into the US than Canada. Possibly because Canada hasn't pissed too many people off and no one really wants to blow them up. I had my driver's license out waiting to cross back into the US on Sunday. It was taking so long, I decided to re-arrange the stuff on the passenger seat and set the licence down. When I looked for it, it had completely disappeared. I STILL can't find it! I used my military retiree ID. (I got home and my car keys disappeared overnight, and I haven't found them either. Makes me wonder...)

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:29 PM

Carry the booze on, safer all round, but dont imbibe, hic!

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:35 PM

Best not carry it internally, in the circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Dead Horse
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:41 PM

Only sweet liquor, such as sloe-gin allowed, I'm afraid.
Nothing "sharp" is permitted.



(sorry, I'm leaving now.........)

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 02:59 AM

I've successfully brought many a 2-litre bottle of 3-star Metaxas well wrapped in beach towel and beach mat back from Greece in a soft holdall in the aircraft hold. With a 5-kilo limit on cabin luggage, it seemed sensible to keep that for cameras , valuables etc.
RtS
(but then if it had broken and my holiday clothes all smelt of brandy who would know the difference!)

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 03:10 AM

A little thread drift.
WHY do they allow bottles of duty-free on planes?
Wouldn't it be much simpler, safer, more sensible to have a duty-free chit/voucher redeemable at the destination?
Less aero-drunks, safer in a crash, and the biggie: How far do you have to fly before the fuel-usage is a greater weight than the bottle?

I'll bet someone out there has the formula for that answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: dianavan
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 03:13 AM

Take a passport if you have it. Otherwise birth certificate and picture I.D. should do it. Expect the U.S. airport security to tell you to take off your shoes. Don't take manicure scissors. Carry your booze with you. Check out the duty free shop. Bring Tequila to Canada. Have fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: el ted
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 03:16 AM

Dear Yanks,
          The solution is simple,I am surprised none of you have thought of it already. Take the bottles of said brandy, pour into your open suitcase, fly to wherever, open suitcase at hotel, ring brandy out of clothes into a glass. Case solved I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Hrothgar
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 06:47 AM

I am amused by the proposition that one can take a bottle of booze in carry-on luggage, but not a nail file. If I have choice of weapons, it's a broken bottle over a nail file any old time!

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 11:19 AM

I found the passport--it has another year to go before it expires. Now I need to find out how early to get there--someone told me about not being allowed on a plane for an international flight even though they were an hour early. The airline required passengers to be there two hours early. Good thing this flight is late morning--I won't have to get up before I've even gone to bed in order to get there and sit around for hours before I sit around on the plane. I don't particularly like flying (except for the good view out of the windows sometimes) for all of the time I'm stuck sitting.

Hrothgar, I agree. Think about it--just about anything can become a weapon if someone is determined to take a hard object and swing it around or break it off to create jagged edges. Pretty soon they're realize that those tray tables can be broken out, and maybe the air phones can be cracked to make sharp plastic shards. Or break off an armrest and it will double nicely for the jawbone of an ass. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: dianavan
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 12:45 AM

SRS - Don't forget to confirm your flight.

...and yes, international flights take at least two hours. Be there on time or they will give your seat to someone else, reservation or not. That happened to me on my last flight. I was lucky to get the last empty seat because I didn't confirm and only gave myself an hour for check in. I thought that since I had bought my ticket 4 months previously, it was a done deal. Boy, was I wrong!

Expect the unexpected.

d

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 09:56 AM

Forgiven and forgotten, Martin....

Subject: RE: BS: Alcohol in suitcase on plane question???
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 02:12 AM

Confirmed this morning, and they said be there two hours in advance. Sounds like some of you have done this before!

No email for four days--no computer access. Boggles the mind. But I'll enjoy visiting and my 86-year-old aunt is driving to the airport to pick me up. My mother stopped driving in her early 70s, but my aunt can turn that caddy on a dime. (Here's hoping she doesn't have to.)

SRS