Tue, Mar 13, 2007
Passengers Still Not Familiar With Liquid Ban
Each week, hundreds of airline passengers returning from
Caribbean vacations threaten United States security by bringing
contraband though Miami International Airport security checkpoint.
The threats lie not in bombs, guns, knives or even nail
clippers.
It's booze.
The TSA says it collected more than nine tons of contraband
items at MIA just from October 2006 through January 2007. The items
being mostly oversized bottles of alcohol and perfume. So much has
accumulated that the airport has convened emergency meetings of
transportation and tourism officials, according to USA Today.
"It's a problem for tourism in South Florida," airport security
director Lauren Stover said. "We don't want people to come down
here and have a wonderful vacation, and then have their alcohol
taken away when they're flying home."
TSA adopted the policy last year after an alleged plot by
British terrorists to blow up US-bound jets with liquid explosives
was uncovered in 2006. It limits passengers to only 3 ounces of
liquids in airplane cabins.
Travelers run into trouble in the Miami airport when they try to
make connecting flights and attempt to pass through security
carrying the bottles purchased in duty-free shops that exceed the
limit, Stover said.
"I'm not aware of any other airport that has this issue," TSA
spokeswoman Ellen Howe said. "It's a combination of the cruise-ship
volume and international flights."
However, passengers are free to take bottles of liquor on board
packed in checked luggage. "I don't know why people aren't doing
that," said Tim Wagner, a spokesman for American Airlines.
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