On-topic, via BoingBoing -- Veritas Airlines, where the pre-flight announcements tell you the bald truth:
Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look for it at all. In the event of a landing on water, an unprecedented miracle will have occurred, because in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero. This aircraft is equipped with inflatable slides that detach to form life rafts, not that it makes any difference. Please remove high-heeled shoes before using the slides. We might as well add that space helmets and anti-gravity belts should also be removed, since even to mention the use of the slides as rafts is to enter the realm of science fiction.
They will let you keep your chapstick, so long as it is a solid stick type. No need to have the chapped lips upon arrival.
I suppose if you had a prescription for yoghurt, you could take up to 4 oz.
(TSA wouldn't let my DH's PB&J on board last weekend.)
I was going to say, I was pretty sure chapstick was OK.
And I'm (sadly) not going to Vegas, just Worcester. Where I won't even have a chance to see Buffistas, since I'm sure I'll be attached to my boss the whole weekend.
My aunt had her lipstick confiscated when she flew last week -- it's not explicitly on the official list of items, but some agents aren't allowing it.
Yeah, I was unclear. I am also travelling this weekend - and I am going to Vegas with Lee & Emily. Hence the needing of the makeup and lotion and sundry. I gave up & decided to check luggage, so I'll be the mule for them.
When I flew on Monday I pulled my chapstick and saline solution out of my purse and put them on top of the pile that went through the x-ray machine so they could see what I had. No problem with either, fortunately.
I suspect some of the agents are just as confused as we passengers are (and probably just as dumbstruck by what is/is not allowed).
Ah, I got confused by all the J-names and lost track of who was going where.
Isn't the ratio something like 107 men to every 100 women? It's not the huge comic book store-esque mismatch that popular entertainment seems to think.
According to the US Census, 48.3% of Alaskans are "Female persons." For the US as a whole, this is 50.8%, as of 2004. A hundred years ago, even thirty years ago, the difference would be more pronounced, especially in some areas.
Maybe I can just go to Vegas instead.
