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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:06 pm
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I suppose it'd be too much to hope that someone else has been in the exact same situation as me, but I thought I'd ask regardless.
I get to go to Japan with about twenty people from my school for nearly two weeks around spring break this year. I'm a Canadian highschool student, for perspective, by the way.
Now, I know that the plane ride is well over fifteen hours long, not including the time spent flying to Vancouver international airport and the two hour stay we have there at that terminal. I'm going to be bringing along several books (cheap ones I can dispose of should I need more room in my suitcase for souvenirs) to read, plus my trusty iPod, but I would really like to bring my knitting. When I went to England last year, I didn't bring it and suffered for it on the way over. You can only read so many pages before the words start to blur before your eyes, your friends/family are only interesting for so long, and you eventually go deaf from turning up your music so loud as to cover the sound of the jet engines (particularly if your window seat overlooks the wing and the giant engines, as mine did). The solution for what I do when I feel stressed and my eyes ache? Knitting.
However, I know from personal experience that airport security is getting tougher. Does anybody know of anything that may be permitted on flights? I mean, wooden DPNs aren't any more dangerous than pencils (less so, 'cause you can't get lead poisoning), and aren't those allowed on?
Now, I'm not interested in fighting for my right to bring my knitting needles (or even crochet hooks) on the plane (I can see them having a point about metal needles), but I was wondering if anybody knew airport policy on stuff like this. I mean, what about a really blunt plastic crochet hook? (I could finish a hat, or a scarf, or something!) Best case would be to sneak some wooden DPNs on in a pencil case, but I really don't want to make a scene should I take it out mid-flight and we have to land in Hawaii 'cause I've been branded a terrorist.
(I will also take into consideration that airport policies change all the time, and not all airport security personnel screen the same way - the stories I've heard!)
Anyway... Info? Links? Amusing/horrifying anecdotes?
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:01 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:30 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:54 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:38 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:49 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:45 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:32 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:26 pm
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Alright, you guys are so helpful! ^_^ I'll call up someone from Air Canada in the next few weeks to ask (I don't trust websites for these matters; half the time they aren't up to date, etc.,etc.). The mailing it to yourself thing is a good idea as well.
Because you guys are so awesome, I'll share a story with you. I was sitting with several people (friends/colleagues/aquaintances of my father) at a dinner in the summer, and one of the men there was the manager of the Vancouver International Airport (now HE had some other hilarious stories to tell about stuff people try to pull; like the gentleman flying back down to Georgia who tried to convince them that his (still dripping) rack of moose antlers could be considered carry-on luggage (this thing was taller than the man himself), but I digress.). He actually had to fly to some place (Sri Lanka, or something) for buisness, but had to take several connecting flights. He brought his laptop along, and had no problems on the way there (despite stopping in at least four or five different airports in various countries), and had no problems getting back... until his last stop at the small Edmonton airport on his way over to Ontario. Suddenly, it was a big problem for him to have his laptop - the wires, you see, where dangerous. Now, he'd boarded however many flights in the last week (even one at that same airport!) and it hadn't been a problem. He was forced to mail the wire to himself. >_<; Just goes to show that what some agents view as dangerous other people don't...
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:20 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:02 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:05 am
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