WASHINGTON — Vacationers giddy about having the ability to maintain their sneakers on whereas strolling via TSA checkpoints on the airport once more could have one thing else to sit up for: adjustments to how a lot liquid they will carry.
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned Wednesday throughout a convention hosted by “The Hill” that she is questioning “all the things TSA does” and spoke of potential adjustments to the quantity of liquids vacationers can tote of their carry-on baggage.
“The liquids, I am questioning. So which may be the following large announcement is what dimension your liquids should be,” Noem mentioned. “We’ve put in place in TSA a multilayered screening course of that permits us to alter a few of how we do safety and screening so it is nonetheless as secure.”
She gave no particulars about exactly what these adjustments could be or how shortly vacationers may count on to see them.
Underneath the Transportation and Safety Administration’s present steering, vacationers can carry liquids in travel-sized containers 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) or much less per merchandise of their carry-on bag. These containers have to be positioned in a one-quart resealable plastic bag. Greater containers should go in checked baggage, although there are exceptions for medicines and child components.
Noem introduced on July 8 that vacationers have been now not required to take their sneakers off whereas going via screening after a pilot program confirmed TSA had the tools wanted to maintain airports and plane secure whereas permitting folks to maintain their sneakers on.
That coverage had been in place since 2006, a number of years after “shoe bomber” Richard Reid’s failed try to take down a flight from Paris to Miami in late 2001.
The bounds on liquids have been triggered by a 2006 incident the place authorities foiled a plot to used liquid explosives smuggled aboard carry-on baggage to explode planes.
Ever because the tips have been put in place TSA checkpoints have been the scene of vacationers shortly guzzling water, digging via baggage to seek out and discard a too-large tube of hair gel and chucking jars of all the things from jam to bottles of espresso that did not meet the dimensions requirement.
The steering additionally triggered discussions – generally arguments – over what constitutes a liquid. Yogurt? Peanut butter? Jam and jelly? All are at present restricted to containers no larger than 3.4 ounces as detailed on an intensive checklist that TSA maintains on its web site titled “What can I deliver?”
Noem additionally laid out her imaginative and prescient for the way forward for airport journey through the speak Wednesday.
“Hopefully, the way forward for an airport, the place I am trying to go is that you just stroll within the door together with your carry-on suitcase, you stroll via a scanner and go proper to your airplane,” Noem mentioned. “It takes you one minute.”
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