Tanks...check this out!

[Buoyant1]

click this...Delta aparently let's you take tanks?!?!?!


http://www.delta.com/traveling_checkin/baggage/special_baggage/dangerous_goods/index.jsp

 

[timle]

http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1190.xml

TSA has a different take on this. The valve must be removed to allow visual inspection. So you could fly with your own tanks if you removed the valve, reinspect, and reassembly.

 

[tedwhiteva]

TSA guidelines allow tanks if they have the valve removed during shipment so they can be looked inside.

Can you say "new VIP"?

 

[ProfessorAronnax]

Gotta remove the valve or it's a no go

 

[mike_s]

Funny thing about the Delta website on what I can or cannot take.

• Liquid Oxygen is not allowed. go figure....
• I can only take 11 pounds of ammunition
• You are allowed to take a 'personal flotation device', but you have to take it in checked luggage.
• I can't take my chainsaw.
• I can't take any of my radioactive materials
• No plastic knives for meals are allowed, but yet they will allow me to take hair spray and matches.

 

[jeraldjcook]

I think the best is that the TSA says you can take a parachute as a carry-on, you just can't wear it.

 

[Buoyant1]

makes sense re: the TSA, but why wouldn't the airlines change their info?

I saw that and just thought it was strange to see????

 

[PaulChristenson]

I think the best is that the TSA says you can take a parachute as a carry-on, you just can't wear it.

Unless you're D.B. Cooper

Paul in VT

 

[MikeC]

I think the best is that the TSA says you can take a parachute as a carry-on, you just can't wear it.

I know someone who did carry their parachute on, just after 9/11/01. She was nervous about TSA and their rules. She was traveling on business, to a location with good sky diving and some off time. What was interesting is that TSA missed a small emergency knife that my friend forgot about.

mike_s, I think all US airlines allow the 11 pounds of ammo, ONLY IF DECLARED and in suitable packaging, factory boxes.

 

[MichaelBaranows]

If I remember correctly DB Cooper did take a parachute when he hijacked the plane he recested they give him one.