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Alcohol on a Plane
Casual Eddy
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I'm flying to chicago with some friends in a week and I'm wondering if it's legal to bring airplane bottles of liquor past security. I'm having trouble finding a straight answer on the .gov site. I'm 21 and was planning to keep them in the required zip lock bag, and the bottles will be under 3 oz of course. Will the security guys rape me immediately when they find my bag of alcohol?
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I know you can travel with alcohol bottles in your stow-away, but if your mission is to drink them while in-flight that wouldn't really help.
and yes we are hoping to get wasted in-flight
How long is your flight? You could always just get wasted beforehand.
or do the bag checkers base their decisions on what the airlines allow or do not allow?
Edit: As in, the airline would not be permitted to allow it if the TSA didn't allow it, and certain airlines indeed do allow it, I just don't know which, or if any of them are American.
Assuming you can even get through security with a large quantity of mini-bottles (not a certain outcome), you are not allowed to serve yourself your own alcohol on planes. You can bring it with you if you're just transporting it (provided it meets all the carry-on restrictions re. liquids), but you are prohibited by federal regulations from pouring your own drink. You can ask the flight attendant to serve it for you, and many will often agree to do so in special circumstances (e.g. on a honeymoon trip, bringing a small bottle of champagne and asking the flight attendant to serve it to you in-flight), though some airlines have a blanket "purchased alcohol only" policy. But 21 year olds looking to get tanked in-flight on mini bottles? Not bloody likely. At best you'll be sternly asked to put it away, middle of the road outcome is you'll have your booze confiscated, worst-case scenario you get your own personal greeting from law enforcement officers upon arrival.
In short, this is a pretty terrible idea from start to finish. I'd recommend either buying your drinks on the plane or confining your drinking to earthbound post-arrival celebrations.
So I wrapped each bottle really, really well and marked the box FRAGILE.
At the check in counter I was asked, "What's in the box?". I told lady what it was and her response was, "Don't expect it to arrive at your destination."
I guess employee theft of liquor is high at Philly International but my box arrived with no broken bottles.
sorry, did you assume we would be drinking it in sight of anyone?
Basically I am wondering this, am I allowed to bring alcohol through security?
Don't do it. These are federal laws that are taken really seriously.
There are additional FARs about what air carriers have to do with drunk people.
that approach is pretty aces
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Always worked for me. Except for the time I nearly missed a plane due to one too many martinis. But I digress...
That airport is a god forsaken shit pile.
Though it'd probably be stolen at most airports anyway, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood TSA agent. Checked baggage is not only handled by airline employees (under the airport) but 'security checked' by the TSA agents. Airline employees, for the most part, won't go through bags because they don't have time to/not their job.
I like forward to your follow-up H&A post entitled "How to get off a no-fly list".
It's also a judgement call by the gate agent. If they think you're too drunk they'll either stop you, or they'll think about it and let the flight crew know that there's someone too drunk to fly. Then you get to talk to customer service while they explain to you that you need to sit around a bit before you can get on a plane.
You are a fucking idiot.