[lace] airplanes and pillows

2005-01-29 Thread Janice Blair
Hi All, I am just catching up on the 9 digests I had to received after being away from the computer for about 4 days. I spotted the message from Christina who wrote: Thank you all for the information. For those of you nearby Air Tran is having a sale on fares now. I did book through

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-24 Thread Thelacebee
I asked the Aussie carrying a pillow as handluggage when covered in pins and bobbins, as he was incharge of security at Adelaide airport and after he had stopped laughing he just simply said that no airport in Australia would agree to you having this as hand luggage whether you are on an

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-24 Thread Lisa Thompson
Christina, I put mine inside a sturdy plastic wreath box and use duct tape to cover the latches and around the seam between the two halves of the box. Then I check it as luggage. I bring extra duct tape along in case security decides to open it (they haven't to date) and for the return

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-23 Thread Alice Howell
At 12:48 PM 1/23/2005, you wrote: We are planning our Denver trip - I bought our plane tickets ($202RT out of Dulles, each) have reserved a room and a car. We are going out a few days early. Now my question - has anyone flown with their lace pillow? If so, what is the largest size pillow you

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-23 Thread Weronika Patena
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:15:44PM -0800, Alice Howell wrote: General rules these days preclude 'carrying on' a working pillow. The restriction of no sharp objects in carry-ons means no pins, no scissors, no sharp metal crochet hooks, etc. Divider pins definitely wouldn't pass, but

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-23 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 1/23/2005 5:16:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I talked to one person at Tulsa IOLI who went out and bought a second suitcase to travel home because she gained so many things. (Beware the temptation of the Sales Room.) There is always the

Re: [lace]airplanes and pillows

2005-01-23 Thread robinlace
A lot of this advice will depend on the airport as well as the airline and the country. Just because your home airport allows you to bring your pillow to the plane doesn't mean the airport at the other end will. Even in these post-9/11 days, the strictness of security varies considerably