[philmont] What you can carry on an airline.

I've been monitoring this list for years and have occasionally contributed
to it… I'm having a difficult time with the stove thread because of all
the conflicting information.

When we have gone out to Philmont (97,02, 04) we have shipped our stoves and
empty fuel bottles directly to Philmont and had those items shipped back to
us. As Jim Moss wrote earlier, There are too many different lists on what
can or cannot go on a plane. There are also too many people involved in the
various security check points as well. I will not argue my interpretation
of FAA, TSA and Airline carrier lists at the Airline Counter or other
security checkpoints. With 23 other people in tow, I know I won't have the
time or energy to get into a discussion like that at the airport. Why take
the risk of a more invasive (time consuming) search at the airport or even
risk having to toss out gear at the airport?

With proper planning, it's a piece of cake to get the stoves out to Philmont
with plenty of time to spare. Along with the stoves, I ship things like
tent stakes, ground clothes etc, so we can travel light through the
airports. With tracking numbers, I can be assured that Philmont has
received my boxes and they will be there waiting for our crews when we
arrive…

YIS

Tom Fitzpatrick

----Original Message Follows----
From: "David Ritter" <dritter6@triad.rr.com>
Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
To: "philmont List Member" <philmont@troop47.com>
Subject: [philmont] What you can carry on an airline.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:21:18 -0400

Last year while checking in at Denver airport the ticket agent/baggage
check-in saw a group of Scouts coming and before saying anything else asked
how many fuel canisters we had. Our group had four cleaned out, aired out
and no scent white fuel canisters in our checked baggage. We had to dig them
out and throw them away. We were told we could go down the hall and ship
them home. The stoves passed the smell test, so we could keep them.

Dave Ritter

  This happens every year.

The website is NOT THE ENTIRE STORY ON WHAT YOU CAN BRING ON AN AIRPLANE.
That is only the TSA list. The FAA has a list and the Airlines have a list.
The TSA list is only what you can carry on board in the passenger
compartment. What goes in baggage is different and a different list.

Before you rely on anything contact the airline you are flying on. I've had
some say to me the stoves must be brand new in the box. I've had some say
the stoves must not smell of fuel and I've some not care.

Some have brought me off the airplane down to baggage to open bags so they
could inspect the stoves after they were discovered in the baggage x-ray.
They simply smelled them.

The TSA site is just 1/3 of the entire picture.

Jim Moss

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Received on Thu Apr 5 08:51:59 2007