> Follow up to an earlier posting. Our group transported the usual empty, > dry, clean but previously used fuel bottles and backpacker stoves to and > from Alaska on Alaska Air without running into any prohibitions. This is > consistent with how I read the FAQ at the airline's website. I had heard > anecdotal reports for other airlines that were making some of my friends on > other backpacking trips rethink their stove/bottle transport. YMMV. Last year check-in counter in San Diego commuter airport (United Airlines flight) used what looked to me as a "sniffer-machine" on my bags. Small strip of some material was swabbed around inside the bag and then put inot the analyser slot. Cold be gas-analyser (gas-chromatograph). I am more than positive that such equipment is in place in all the major airports, and has nothing to do with particular airline - but provides them with more sensible approach to the grey area of "clean but previously used" stoves and fuel containers.Which might not preclude some particularly stubborn airlines from not using such an equipment, of course. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 16 2005 - 11:39:09 PDT
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