RE: [Philmont]: Backpack storage for plane travel

 Used airline plastic bags in 2000 and 2002. Worked fine. Can't do
it in advance as we did in 2000, TSA needs to sniff the packs. A
little slower, but the plastic bags are free, do not take up minimal
storage space at Philmont. Price is right.

YIS

Kirk Barley

Virginia Beach

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-Philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-Philmont@troop47.com]
On Behalf Of Dunckle, Jeffrey B
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 7:34 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list Philmont
Subject: [Philmont]: Backpack storage for plane travel

To make a very long story short (and maybe help someone else out), I
think we stumbled into a very good solution in August '02. We flew
American and they had very large, heavy-duty plastic bags that the
packs slid into nicely, and then we duck-taped them closed. This
ended up being quite easy and was very acceptable to the airline (it
was their bag). Things were crazy at that moment in time but if I
recall correctly, I think they even required us to use these bags.
Call your airline and see if they have these available. If they
don't actually have them, just ask them if that would be acceptable
and then obtain them on your own ahead of time. This ended up being
easy. What was not easy was all the ideas and effort I and some of
our crew went through trying to come up with the best way and then
being handed these bags anyway by the check-in person behind the
American counter (and also almost missing the baggage check-in
cutoff!!). Good luck.

"Does everyone agree duffle bags are best for airline travel? Any
thoughts?

Brad- FL"

Jeff Dunckle

CC - Troop 180

Philmont '02

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Received on Sun Dec 14 23:01:18 2003