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Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

Old Jun 21st 2014, 9:46 pm
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Default Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

I guess most of you know that the TSA relaxed the rules on duty free liquids in cabin baggage earlier this year.

TSA rules on international alcohol loosen up - CNN.com

However right at the end of the article it says "The safest bet is still to check your liquids. That's because the agency still reserves the right to not clear your favorite drink or lotion."

I just wondered if any of you have brought things through without any problems recently?

We leave for the UK on Tuesday and don't want to stock up at the airport on our return with more duty free than we can put in our checked bags if they are routinely making people check it.
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I take it you're connecting within the States? Because if you're not, then there is no problem with duty free booze in your carry on.
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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

Check the prices before you load up on duty free anyway. Ten days ago I bought a litre of Bombay Sapphire gin in Sainsbury's for £18.00 that would have cost me £21.99 in LHR duty free.
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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

Originally Posted by markonline1
I take it you're connecting within the States? Because if you're not, then there is no problem with duty free booze in your carry on.
Yes, I'm aware of how it works, I've lived here since 2008.
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Yes, I'm aware ofh how it works, I've lived here since 2008.
Yes, but your question wasn't clear/ lacked material details. ..... I brought my duty free in the cabin with no problem at all, but then I had a direct flight from LHR, so that is no help to you.
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
Yes, but your question wasn't clear/ lacked material details. ..... I brought my duty free in the cabin with no problem at all, but then I had a direct flight from LHR, so that is no help to you.
What more details do you need? I just want to know if anyone has been asked to check duty free liquids on a connecting flight that were bought in an airport duty free.
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What more details do you need? I just want to know if anyone has been asked to check duty free liquids on a connecting flight that were bought in an airport duty free.
The words "connecting flight" did not appear in your original question, and would have made it explicitly clear.
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
The words "connecting flight" did not appear in your original question, and would have made it explicitly clear.
Touché however, in my defense the linked article details all that. I assumed posters here would read it, and I further assumed that in reading it would realize that I understand the difference in policies regarding duty free, checking it on connecting flights etc, etc
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Is duty free really worth it? Seems like a right faff when it doesn't actually cost that much in the supermarket.

I think the only thing I've ever bought was a lipstick because I was bored, it seemed funny because the stewardess had to stand there clutching this tiny bag for me at the end of the flight.
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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Is duty free really worth it? Seems like a right faff when it doesn't actually cost that much in the supermarket.

I think the only thing I've ever bought was a lipstick because I was bored, it seemed funny because the stewardess had to stand there clutching this tiny bag for me at the end of the flight.
You're right it's mostly not worth it, but there are one or two things that I can't get here, at least where I live. I've been on the look out for Gordon's Sloe gin since I've lived here but haven't seen it. They have some ghastly pink colored gin masquerading as sloe gin but it's far from the real deal.

I have packed bottles of various things in checked bags over the years, but usually only one per case and I'm always afraid they'll break in transit.
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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

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You're right it's mostly not worth it, but there are one or two things that I can't get here, at least where I live. I've been on the look out for Gordon's Sloe gin since I've lived here but haven't seen it. They have some ghastly pink colored gin masquerading as sloe gin but it's far from the real deal.

I have packed bottles of various things in checked bags over the years, but usually only one per case and I'm always afraid they'll break in transit.
Oh that makes sense if you can't get it.

I've never drunk gin again after a lost weekend in 1980
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Originally Posted by The Horticulturalist
What more details do you need? I just want to know if anyone has been asked to check duty free liquids on a connecting flight that were bought in an airport duty free.
You won't be asked to check it though will you? By the time you reach TSA the luggage has gone and it's too late.
IMHO I think the key is here "provided they were purchased in duty-free shops and placed in secure, tamper-evident bags (STEBs),"
Many duty free stores just put the stuff in a normal carrier which TSA probably won't like if they seal them in the store you are probably good.
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You won't be asked to check it though will you? By the time you reach TSA the luggage has gone and it's too late.
IMHO I think the key is here "provided they were purchased in duty-free shops and placed in secure, tamper-evident bags (STEBs),"
Many duty free stores just put the stuff in a normal carrier which TSA probably won't like if they seal them in the store you are probably good.
The article says that even if it's in the official sealed duty free bag they still reserve the right to make you check it, I'd like to think they wouldn't do that very often.
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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

You are right it looks like the type of bottle is important also.

From the TSA:

"Inbound international flights

You may now carry liquids more than 100 mL in your carry-on bag if:

You are traveling internationally into the United States with a connecting flight;
they are in transparent containers;
you bought them at a duty-free shop, and
the store packed them in a secure, tamper-evident bag.

If your liquids are not in a secure, tamper-evident bag, you must pack them in your checked bag.
If the liquids alarm during screening, we will need to screen them further."

http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/3-1-1-carry-ons

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Default Re: Anyone brought Duty Free liquids in cabin since Jan?

Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Is duty free really worth it? Seems like a right faff when it doesn't actually cost that much in the supermarket.

I think the only thing I've ever bought was a lipstick because I was bored, it seemed funny because the stewardess had to stand there clutching this tiny bag for me at the end of the flight.
Originally Posted by Pulaski
Check the prices before you load up on duty free anyway. Ten days ago I bought a litre of Bombay Sapphire gin in Sainsbury's for £18.00 that would have cost me £21.99 in LHR duty free.
(sorry to veer slightly off-topic)

Yeah, and with smart phones these days, it's easy to stand in duty free and actually check the high street / supermarket prices. I've also stood in LHR T3 meet'n'greet while somebody was in the "last gasp" duty free arrivals area (visible through the automatic doors) asking whether to buy anything (the answer was "no. Hell no, not at those sky-high prices"). Duty-free they may be; airport premium-free they ain't, and most airports will far exceed local duty/VAT for that. I guess the only difference is whether it makes it through the baggage rough handling system intact, whereas duty-free+airport-premium-added is somewhat more under your control
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