When going through security, make sure to take off all your metal. Better yet, don’t wear your entire jewelry box to the airport in the first place.

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Second, take off shoes, belts, jackets, hats, ect.

Thirdly, take out laptop computers, DVD players and other large electronic items.

If they do take something to rescan, make sure to GET IT BACK!!

This morning, a passenger on board did not get her DVD player back from TSA. I know that she was running late and so she forgot but shouldn’t the agent make sure to give it back?

Things you are allowed to bring through that some people do not know:

Milk/formula , juice and water, yogurt and pudding and other snack for your child(ren) that you would not usually be able to bring through.

Things you cannot bring through:

6 Bottles of cheap chocolate syrup, 3 bottles of sunless tanning cream (yes, I saw it with my own eyes) or any liquid, gel or spray over 3 ounces. One ziplock bag per person with your personal items under 3 oz each.

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Due to the increase of fees for checking luggage and the amount of lost  luggage, more and more bags and personal items are being brought out to the aircraft and on board. Do you feel safe having all of the excess weight above your head? What do you consider “personal” items? Newspaper, purse, laptop? The kitchen sink?

Luckily, I work for Comair (a Delta subsidiary) where we have a valet system. You give the luggage that you carried to the aircraft to a ground handler. They in turn place the luggage in the cargo hold, which is a separate area on the 900 series Canadair Regional Jet, thus returning it to you as you deplane in the next city. Unfortunately with larger aircraft, these bags are allowed on board. While this may seem great to you as a passenger that wants to protect your clothes and such with your lives apparently, a survey found on Aero-news.com shows that such bags cause injury to not only the passengers but the flight attendants as well.

“According to the survey, over 80 percent of flight attendants sustained injuries over the past year due to dealing with carry-ons in overhead bins. The most common injury being strained and pulled muscles in the neck, arms and upper back. The survey was compiled from a representative sample of the 50,000 AFA-CWA members at 22 U.S. airlines.”

Currently, there is a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that offers to set one standard for all bags carried on board U.S. commercial aircraft. The Securing Carry-On Baggage Act, H.R. 2870, would create a universal size for carry-on bags, instead of allowing each carrier to determine its own size requirements and requires the Transportation Security Administration to enforce the rules. (also as reported on the site)

I ran into another blog yesterday while looking for other flight attendant blogs that I thought you may be interested in.

As a US citizen, you don’t hear much good about places like Iran. Or, at least I do not. It seems like such a scary foreign place. Lot’s of dirt and crazy radicals, limited civilized amenities and definitely not somewhere I’d ever go. Or would I?

This new blog (new for me) is called: I thought you had the map?! The title alone caught my attention. Basically, it’s four Aussie’s that blogged their way from Australia to England. Left with three choices, go through Afghanistan (no way! they say), through China (too expensive) or go through Pakistan, quickly. Apparently, the folks in India told them that Pakistan was not civilized or safe, as did their travel insurance. Not so!

They tell of their adventures including video and pictures and tell of how nice the people are in Pakistan. I wonder if they would be so nice to us or if it’s just because these are Aussie’s they were dealing with?

As far as Iran goes, I have seen some incredible photographs of the architecture and ornate details in the Iranian buildings. I hear of great work and opportunity and a friendly people.

Have you been to Iran? What were your experiences?

I think that unless you want to just sit back and let these              extremist take over and kill innocent people then we need to do what ever is necessary to protect ourselves.

Does this mean that I think we should go to or stay in a war with these people? NO

Does this mean that I think Revelations in the Bible is coming to pass? We need to pray more? YES

Another thing that we can do while we are still here on this Earth is to protect ourselves here in the United States. What can we do here on our own soil? Since I work for the airlines, my mind immediately goes to my job. When I here about some obviously Devil overtaken soul is trying to light his own underwear on fire even after the parents tried to warn us and he was already on a do not fly list (government=idiots?), there had to be another step.

Currently some airports offer a backscatter X-ray, also known as the “naked X-ray”. I personally have a knee replacement so I have been through the X-ray and it is not a big deal. Can the one trained person sitting in another room who is the only one who can see the screen and does not even know who you are see a little more than you may be comfortable with for the whole 30 seconds the scan takes? Yes. Are you really so uptight that you would honestly care if it meant safer travel?

This person cannot see your face. They cannot see you name and social. They have no idea where you are traveling to. What they can see is if you have any metal on or in your body or anything that doesn’t look normal. Since I cannot seem to find the post that I wrote on this when news first broke, I have gone back and found the 60minutes report for you here.

Check it out and see for yourself. Although I love (add sarcasm here) the “free massage” that I get EVERY time I go through security that comes with the hassle of waiting for some lazy TSA woman to take her time and hassle me in front of my crew members and others alike (you know who you are), I would love the convenience and added security of getting these machines into all of the airports.