Tips for flying cheaper in 2012

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Hint #3 will get you in trouble. You're not allowed to bring your own alcohol on board to consume during the flight. Federal regulation that all alcoholic beverages consumed during a flight must be served by an FA. And good luck trying to get the bottles past the tsa thugs. They'll keep them for themselves and have a party with your liquor.

2-11-2012 @ 9:58AM

gezeer said...

Actually, this is not true. Here's a first-hand story, from the days before TSA put ziploc bags at inspections. So . . . I don't have a ziploc bag, and I left a little 50 ml bag of some funky French "scotch" (can you believe it!) in my carry on. TSA found it and confiscated it, both of us joking about the notion of "French scotch", me bemoaning its sorry fate. So anyway . . . my wife and I are eating sandwichs purchased from a deli, before we board. And lo and behold the sandwiches are in ziploc plastic bags. So I go back to the TSA guy and I wave the bag at him and he points to the wastebasket. There is my little bottle of scotch in the bottom with all the other trash. I plucked it out and off I went.

2-10-2012 @ 3:37PM

Michael said...

While it may be against the rules to consume any self carried alcohol while on a plane, carrying it if it is packaged in less than a 3 ounce bottle is not unlawful.

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