Airline Travel w/ Kilt Pin

[Gary]

Say, has anyone traveled by plane recently wearing a kilt pin on their kilt without having to remove it from their kilt? I'm traveling from Kansas to Scotland this week and was wondering if I should remove the kilt pin and place it in checked baggage.

Thanks!

Gary

[bubba]

Better safe than sorry, put the kilt pin in checked baggage. You never know what the reaction will be at any given security checkpoint.

[Jewddha]

My sentiments excatly. They are getting more and more lenient, but it would be a sad thing to get confiscated if you run across a grumpy security guard.

[cessna152towser]

Jewdda wrote:-

They are getting more and more lenient, but it would be a sad thing to get confiscated if you run across a grumpy security guard.

Perhaps getting more lenient in USA and Canada but my experience of flying both as a domestic airline passenger and as a private pilot in Britain is they seem to be getting stricter all the time, escpecially about things like digital cameras and coins which all must go through the x-ray and they are confiscating anything remotely sharp like a nailfile or scissors. When taking two passengers flying recently I somehow triggered the metal detector and had to undergo a full search before being allowed airside.

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[Streetcar]

Check the TSA website at
http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/e...orial_1012.xml
You can download a copy of "permitted and prohibited items."

Of course the list has the standard disclaimer about how it's "not all inclusive," and the screener can decide on scene whether or not to allow something on.

But based on what they WILL allow, I can't imagine there would be an issue with a kilt pin. I suppose if you get some over-eager "Judge Dredd" wannabe, he might not allow a kilt pin because it "looks" like a sword.

If you're concerned, I'd print off a copy of that document and bring it with you. If you're given a hard time, I'd politely ask that it be screened with their supervisor.

When they don't allow something like that, you are usually given the option of mailing it home from there.

[Jewddha]

Jewdda wrote:-

Perhaps getting more lenient in USA and Canada but my experience of flying both as a domestic airline passenger and as a private pilot in Britain is they seem to be getting stricter all the time, escpecially about things like digital cameras and coins which all must go through the x-ray and they are confiscating anything remotely sharp like a nailfile or scissors. When taking two passengers flying recently I somehow triggered the metal detector and had to undergo a full search before being allowed airside.

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Of course I can only speak from personal experience and that of friends. I know people who have able to bring nail files, scissors, knitting needles etc... onto planes now. Granted, all domestic flights.

[Graham]

Don't do it, it's not worth the grief.
Only once I forgot i had it on, at Aberdeen Airport, everywhere else in the US, UK and Oz I doubt if I would get away with it.

[davedove]

Just take it off and check it. There are enough hassles with travel these days without adding another possible one.

[646guy]

I'd rather not take the risk and would rather check it than run the risk that some grouse of an agent would get pissy over a "guy in a skirt" and would deem the item as something against security. Then again, if you give it to a woman to wear through and then get it back from her afterwards maybe it would be okay...

[Freedomlover]

My sentiments excatly. They are getting more and more lenient, but it would be a sad thing to get confiscated if you run across a grumpy security guard.

And I'm here to tell you there are some choice examples of official idiots out there. A few months ago my 90 year old mother-in-law was body searched at the Providence, R.I. airport. I guess little old Scottish ladies are a real threat.