Won't Get to be Kilted

[Kid Cossack]

Do you have the same security measures for internal flights as you do for international?

Boy do we.

[ccga3359]

Boy do we.

Perhaps some of our vendors address and offer as an option a flying friendly (read security freindly) kilt. I know Steve at FK built Dreadbelly a casual with no metal.

[mkmound]

Perhaps some of our vendors address and offer as an option a flying friendly (read security freindly) kilt. I know Steve at FK built Dreadbelly a casual with no metal.

Yep -- USAKilts uses velcro on their casuals, and can put it on the semi-trads instead of buckles. I have two that they made that way, which I wear when traveling. Works great! (As long as I remember to take off the garters -- there's enough metal in the garter buckles to set off the metal detectors! )

[Clockwork John]

The last time I flew, I had to take my boots off three times!
1. Bag x-ray
2. Metal detector
3. Shoe check, looking for explosives or some such nonsense.
After the first flight, I just carried my shoes until I got through the metal detector.

I also got selected for "random" searches at 3 out of the 5 airports I passed through.

The next time I fly, I'm gonna go kilted. If I'm gonna get harrassed anyway, I may as well be comfortable.


Enjoy your trip! Too bad there won't be room for your kilt...

[Verlyn]

I could walk naked through the detectors and still manage to set them off. I just returned from a cross country trip wearing a USAK Semi and had zero problems. I let the TSA agent know I had buckles holding stuff on and she had me walk through. Alarm went off and I went over the the wanding area. Now, the hometown airport TSA lady I think was messing with a male co-worker. As I was putting the sporran, computers, brief case, shoes, belt and coat through the scanner, I caught her out of the corner of my eye saying to the x-ray operator, "Oh, I love that look". Then, she gets a really sly grin when I told her I know I'll set off the alarm as she calls for male assistance. This guy was clueless and they knew it; finally I said, "Man, its just a kilt. Wand as normal" while she's laughing at him. Coming back through the airport on the other end was so uneventful as to be a yawn; in fact as I was putting my shoes and sporran back on, I commented more to myself that at least I remember to not wear a SD. The TSA agent doing a test next to me said, "Yeah, some don't". I said I'll bet that caused a lot of excitement. He said only the first time it happened.

The moral of the story is that, for me at least, there is no more or less hassle going through the checkpoints kilted and I'm much more comfortable.