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[grandma]

Does anyone know where to find documentation on the TSA rules regarding 'air carrier employee travelling to and from work'?? are the checkpoint rules necessarily different if you're travelling on a paid ticket versus jumpseating? Even if you're in uniform? I don't agree with being selected for additional screening, but I can handle it. What I can't handle is being in uniform, travelling home from work and having all my liquids and gels taken from my bag. Such was the scene yesterday in HPN. It would be nice to see the rules, handbook, memo, etc. that governs these shakedowns. The checkpoint supervisor pulled out a crusty, one-page list with a few of the larger domestic carriers names on it. My airline wasn't on it, so they said I couldn't keep my toiletries. Lame.

 

[CA1900]

Does anyone know where to find documentation on the TSA rules regarding 'air carrier employee travelling to and from work'??

There are no rules. There is no consistency. Each airports is its own little kingdom.

... Such was the scene yesterday in HPN...

Case in point.

You'll build your own mental list of pain-in-the-ass airports. HPN is one of them for me. At those airports, just check your bags or do the 3-ounce thing.

 

[erj-145mech]

are the checkpoint rules necessarily different if you're travelling on a paid ticket versus jumpseating? Even if you're in uniform?

Just to play devils advocate here, if you are not the flight crew, you are a passenger, and the applicable rules apply.
If you are traveling on a full fare ticket, then you are definitely a pax. Your uniform means nothing, I can buy one on ebay.
My advice, check your bags if you want more than 3 oz of toiletries.

 

[grandma]

Both of your answers were what I was afraid of. However, in 8 years of commuting on the airlines in uniform (pre and post 9/11), yesterday was the FIRST time they've ever taken away my stuff. Now I have to make a special trip to Target for toothpaste today. Yay. Thanks for the replies.

 

[CA1900]

Yep, I know exactly where you're coming from. HPN is a special kind of pain in the ass, though. I remember going through there (when still flying 121), and going out of security to get something to eat since there's nothing in that little prison cell.

I try to go back through security, and he wants to know what my flight number is.

"I have no idea," I say. "It's the one parked on gate 2."

"Then you can't go through."

"You're joking."

Silence.

"What's to stop me from just making up a number? Do you have a list of the flight numbers my airline uses? They change nearly every week, you know."

"Without a ticket or a flight number, you can't go through."

"Fine. I'll just go let the ticket agent know that the Boston flight will have to be canceled. Can I have your name please?"

By now the line was backing up behind me, and I'd amassed quite the audience of TSA dingbats. The supervisor jumped in and said he'd make an exception "just this time," but not to let it happen again.

Uh-huh.

I still called the flight late due to a security incident.