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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do You Protect Portables/Disks in Air Travel?
Message-ID: <70@splut.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 16:20:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.70
Posted: Thu Aug 20 16:20:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 11:24:09 EDT
References: <862@dasys1.UUCP> <695@uhccux.UUCP> <19@splut.UUCP> <114@europa.UUCP>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Keywords: portables disks x-ray metal detector
Summary: Not 'not supposed to hand check...'

In article <114@europa.UUCP>, demillo@europa.UUCP (robert demillo) writes:
) In article <19@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
) >Supposedly, they're not allowed to. I took the same approach with my Compaq
) >Plus, which, while not a laptop, did take some airplane flights with me.
) > 	...followed by stories of airline people asking Jay to 
) >	   to open up Compaqs, power them up, etc.
) 
) This makes *zero* sense to me. I travel (and have traveled) a lot. I take
) computers and computer related equipment with me. I have called airports
) involved, and *every one of them* has told me their official policy is 
) for the traveler to tell airline people to hand check the computer and
) disks. (And I am talking: O'Hare, Logan, Atlanta, etc.) *Never* in four
) years of travelling with computers have I *ever* had anyone insist that they
) take the thing apart, power it up, have it sniffed by dogs, etc. And I have
) never heard the bit about "they aren't supposed to hand check."

Sorry if I wasn't clear...What I meant was, "Supposedly, they're not allowed to
refuse to hand check...". I never had one refuse such a request either.

I would add that the last time I took my Plus along was a year ago, from
Houston to LAX, and didn't have a single problem. The power-up request was
at Dulles, about two years ago. Maybe security types have gotten enlightened
since then...

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