I flew to New York by Pan-Am the day before the same flight was blown up over Lockerbie.
On my return (the flight was almost empty), security had been beefed up: "What's in that bag?" "Cameras" "Oh, that's fine." Presumably I have an honest face, and the security woman thought I would admit to carrying bombs if I had been so doing. John On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:29:22 +0100, Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We didn't have much of a problem leaving Athens for the US. There were > about three layers of security, ending with a thorough hand-check of > all hand baggage at the gate. They were very strict about the no > liquids rule, although Nate and I were able to bring little bottles of > contact lens solution on board with us. Nate got his cameras examined, > but the security agent couldn't figure out how to get into the bottom > section of my camera backpack, where the cameras were, so he just felt > around the outside of the bag and let me through. > > Leaving the US, an agent tried to give me grief about bringing a 4oz > bottle of contact lens solution with me (you can't get saline or > multipurpose solution in bottles smaller than 4oz, as far as I know) > but I knew that contact lens solutions were exempt from the 3oz rule, > which the agent found out from her boss. But the cameras weren't > examined at all at JFK. > > Amita > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
