No CUN duty free for flight crews?

[Andy]

Vanilla for baking. Big bottles for $12 at duty-free. Hopefully can still buy on turns.

Be careful. Most of that is banned in the US and subject to customs seizure. http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm048613.htm

 

[Toecutter]

CBP has been on the warpath lately with flight crews. Three days in a row, they used the beagle on us at BWI. They got one of our FAs and she was taken to "the room". Not sure what happened to her. Maybe this is the plan to balance the budget. Shaking down flight crews for food that originated in the U.S.

 

[cesmaf]

Interesting link on the vanilla. I always wondered why the bottles said they were Coumarin free. Thanks.

 

[LearLove]

Vanilla for baking. Big bottles for $12 at duty-free. Hopefully can still buy on turns.

You how we know you're gay. Just turn in your man card at the same place that fake girlfriend college football kid did.

 

[XTW]

Duty free still available in PVR as of this past weekend. Just sayin'.


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[Rekks Inbound]

PHL CBP has been harassing our crews on returns from YQB (Quebec City, Quebec) for our lunch bags. They re known to confiscate a 4-day's trip worth of food from a crewmember, because they claim they don't know the origin of the items in the bag.

Peace.

Rekks

 

[Andy]

PHL CBP has been harassing our crews on returns from YQB (Quebec City, Quebec) for our lunch bags. They re known to confiscate a 4-day's trip worth of food from a crewmember, because they claim they don't know the origin of the items in the bag.

Peace.

Rekks

I'd be careful of bringing food into the US, even if it originated in the US. The last thing a crewmember wants to do is get their name on a CBP list for bringing an apple back into the US, as the crewmember would find themselves subject to enhanced inspections every time they returned to the US. I've heard of this happening to a pilot who flew to Asia a lot ... it got so bad that he took a downgrade off of his aircraft to something that only flew domestically.