I read on the AA website that absolutely NO banned items will be allowed into the terminal areas( after the x-ray machines) or on board the plane...I called and they said anything bought in the duty free shop is subject to the same restrictions....but when i got through the final screening point at JFK and walked through the duty free shop only 50 feet from the gate.. many people were buying the huge bottles of scotch and other alcohol.....so i asked the lady there and she said , anything bought there would be allowed on the plane, but you would have to let them bring it to an area RIGHT before you enter the plane....where they usually gave out the big stuff people bought at duty free....so i bought some cologne... they put in a bag with my reciept, and sure enough they gave it back to me right before I got on the plane and it was allowed along with 20, 3 foot tall boxes of chivas regal and johnny walker blue(no not mine.)!!!!!!!!!!!!! so the information from AA wasnt being inforced.
When leaving STI , coming back... they had 6 women doing FINAL carry on bag checks right in front of the jet bridge!!!!!! no place to give away your banned items there... they keep the stuff they find.... they did a pretty in depth check of my carry on thats for sure, going deep into the toiletry bag iteslf inside my carry on......then after she checked everything , she asks..."no toothpaste?".....Its in the check bags honey........
lots of unhappy campers in that area!!!!!!!!
maybe some of them were going back to the US for the first time since the incident in London.... and hadnt heard of the new rules....
I got the impression they would have confiscated any liquid , even if it was bought at the STI duty free shop.......
bob
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