PHILADELPHIA – Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) officers need to share some recommendation and tricks to make the checkpoint screening course of go easily at Philadelphia Worldwide Airport.

“With a bit planning and considered the way to pack, passengers may also help facilitate the TSA safety screening course of and ease a passenger’s journey expertise on the airport,” mentioned Gerardo Spero, TSA’s Federal Safety Director for the airport. “That’s why it is very important know what may be packed in carry-on and/or checked baggage earlier than arriving on the airport.”

Planning forward and packing correctly “can facilitate the TSA safety screening course of and ease a passenger’s journey expertise on the airport,” Spero mentioned. “That’s why it is very important know what may be packed in carry-on and/or checked baggage earlier than arriving on the airport.” 

The commonest factor that slows down a traveler at a TSA checkpoint is having a prohibited merchandise in a carry-on bag, and with passenger quantity nationwide exceeding pre-pandemic ranges, and with current checkpoint quantity usually topping 2.7 million vacationers per day, it’s much more necessary for vacationers to “Know Earlier than You Go” by understanding the contents of their carry-on luggage and making certain that the whole lot packed inside is permitted to be carried onto a flight.

“We’re seeing lots of vacationers arrive at our checkpoints with drinks and a wide range of knives,” Spero mentioned. “It’s necessary to do not forget that liquids, gels, aerosols and spreadables are restricted to three.4 ounces in a single clear quart-sized bag in carry-on luggage. End that bottle of water, power drink or cup of espresso earlier than you get to the checkpoint. Pack the bigger shampoo, toothpaste, sunblock and hair gel in a checked bag. As for knives, in case you should journey with a knife, please pack it in your checked bag.”

TSA’s recommendation is that when a traveler is able to pack for a visit that it’s best begin with an empty bag so the passenger is aware of with certainty what they’ve inside they usually know that there’s nothing prohibited in a aspect pouch, zippered pocket or simply within the backside of a bag. That goes for backpacks, curler luggage, purses, messenger luggage, shoulder luggage, laptop computer luggage, duffle luggage and some other carry-on bag or baggage.

TSA presents 5 handy methods to search out out if an merchandise needs to be packed in a carry-on bag, checked bag, both or neither.

1. TSA’s homepage. TSA has an excellent function on it’s homepage. Within the higher right-hand nook of the homepage it says “What Can I Convey?” Click on on these phrases, kind in an merchandise, and it’ll let you understand the place the merchandise needs to be packed.
2. MyTSA app. TSA has a free downloadable app known as MyTSA, which has a fast search perform that permits you to know which gadgets you possibly can carry with you thru the checkpoint and onto the airplane. Not solely that, however the app additionally permits vacationers to test the delay info at their airports, test how busy the airport is prone to be on a particular day and time of journey primarily based on historic knowledge and it lets folks know which airports and airways assist TSA PreCheck®.
3. Tweet your query. TSA could be very lively on social media and has a well-liked Twitter account the place vacationers can ship their questions: @AskTSA. Kind within the merchandise or ship in a photograph of the merchandise to @AskTSA to inquire if the merchandise may be packed in a carry-on or checked bag.
4. Ship a query by way of Fb. TSA’s social media group is on Fb and vacationers can ship of their query about the place gadgets needs to be packed by way of Fb Messenger.
5. Ship a query by way of textual content message. Vacationers can ship in a query to TSA by way of textual content message. Textual content “Journey” to AskTSA (275-872) to inquire the place an merchandise needs to be packed.

It’s additionally necessary to do not forget that even when an merchandise is mostly permitted, it could be topic to extra screening or not allowed via the checkpoint if it triggers an alarm through the screening course of, seems to have been tampered with, or poses different safety considerations.

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