http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/11/airline.security.rules/
The flight rules are really tightening down. UK seems to be taking the brunt of it, with no carry on except for a single plastic baggie (preferably transparent) with a small list of things that can be carried including wallets, travel documents, prescription meds, eyeglasses, contact lens holders w/o bottles of solution, baby food/milk if traveling with infants, female sanitary items, tissues, and keys but NOT keys with electronic fobs…
As a person who has had luggage take “the long route” before getting back to me I have a few things to say:Â
My car keys have fobs, there is no way in hell I would put my car keys in checked baggage. There is no way in hell I would put my laptop in checked baggage. For that matter, there is NOTHING I care about that I will put in checked baggage. When I hand over my suitcase to the happy airline people, I assume that that is the very last time I will see that bag. I make it a point to have anything I can’t live without or would be sorely disappointed at the loss of in my carry-on including sufficient payment mechanisms to rebuy everything that was in my baggage.
I would be a bit shocked if most companies would be fine with their employees putting their corporate laptops in checked baggage, both from an information concern aspect as well as lost laptops. Airlines and airports do not pay people well enough that the urge to steal is suitably suppressed in my opinion. Laptops would be just too easy a target.
The US rules so far aren’t too bad though I don’t like the fact that I can’t bring my own drinks on flights, the drinks on most flights from the airlines suck. I tend to bring a nice bottled water that I know is good and cold and a nice coke.
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I understand this is all in the name of security, but honestly, I almost think this is a no-win game unless we all start boarding nude after being given MRI’s and XRays in a 3 hour security check procedure and allowed no baggage at all. Oh wait, you still have all of the crap going on on the tarmac with all of the low-pay workers… Yeah this is a no-win game.
I wish I had a good idea for a solution. I would freely give it up. In the meanwhile it is going to be hard for people to convince me to fly anywhere, airports and airlines and the people are already a pain in my ass. This just makes it all worse. I wouldn’t mind so much the lot of it but I really don’t believe it is making us all that much if any safer.
  joe
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Learn to fly, Joe. Learn to fly. 40+ hours, pass a few tests and you never have to be bothered by the silly TSA anymore.
Yeah. My previous manager was a pilot and my coworker was a fighter pilot in the gulf and then trained fighter pilots. They have both said I should go get certified as my manager says it fits my mind. I don\’t think taking and passing the classes would be all that difficult, it is the money to pay for the planes and fuel. 🙂
I know it seems odd that a world famous producer of software such as myself isn\’t rich, but that happens to be the case. 😉
Give it a few years — you will be bought out eventually. The big companies have to know about your tools and how popular they are.
Those small planes make me nervous but I haven’t looked at the safety records vs. the big planes.