So the terror alert level is red for international travel (orange for domestic travel) after a major terror cell arrest in London. It was a major operation that targeted airplanes flying from the UK to the USA (specifically three airlines: American, Continental and United).
The result? Travelers can’t carry any liquids with them on flights: no water, no juice, no hand sanitizer, nothing (other than baby formula and prescription medicine, likely with a doctor’s note).
And what’s one of the easiest ways to catch a cold? In-flight dehydration.
Furthermore, what’s one of the things that airlines tend to be fairly skimpy in offering? Decent-sized beverages.
As a side note: I can only imagine the level of hassle trying to fly back to the USA from England – especially from a small airport, like Bristol Airport, our point of entry and departure when we went to England last year. BRS is a small airport that doesn’t have the same scale of security checks as Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester (though, admittedly, their security measures are many, many times better than any seen here in the USA).
adam
11 August 2006 — 10:38
Good Morning America reported this morning that people were just walking through security in some airports with their liquids still in hand. They showed one guy with a Starbucks drink of some sort just want past the boarding gate.