Travel and Vaping Air travel with e-cig

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Should I pack it or take it in my carry- on? Or neither?

I brought one eGo battery, one atomizer, and most of my juice (correctly packed) onboard. Any additional vaping stuff went into checked luggage.

No problems. Even when I forgot and sent my GG through the x-ray machine.
 

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Just got back from Washington-took 4 egos, 6 atomizers and 35ml of e-liquid.
Had all my gear in a samba zip case-atomizers and charger on one side- batteries on the other side. Had the case in my purse and e-liquids in ziplock with my shampoo. All carry on. I encountered no problems at all. No questions or weird looks.
Traveling is one of the reasons I have Egos. If I ever do encounter some problem, I don't want to worry about a nice mod. I do however take a SASE (large enough to hold my gear) in case I encounter the 'you can't take this- TSA craphole'. Have yet to have to use that envelope!!!!
 
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Put the e-liquid in the quart bag for liquids. Your shampoo and deodorant and e-liquid should be together and put the bag in the bin. Then put it back in your carry on. No 1 bottle should contain more than 3oz of liquid. You'll be fine.
Remove the atomizers from the batteries-I do this as an extra precaution, no reason to have the button fire on accident. I am not sure if it is a needed step, I just do it.
 

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Just got back from Washington-took 4 egos, 6 atomizers and 35ml of e-liquid.
Had all my gear in a samba zip case-atomizers and charger on one side- batteries on the other side. Had the case in my purse and e-liquids in ziplock with my shampoo. All carry on. I encountered no problems at all. No questions or weird looks.
Traveling is one of the reasons I have Egos. If I ever do encounter some problem, I don't want to worry about a nice mod. I do however take a SASE (large enough to hold my gear) in case I encounter the 'you can't take this- TSA craphole'. Have yet to have to use that envelope!!!!

Bringing a Priority Mail envelope gave me a lot of relief when I traveled for the first time today by air since I started vaping. I really loaded my bags with ecigs too - 5 mods and 2 808's - I wanted to show my family all about it. I, of course, brought three chargers, 20 various attys and cartos, syringe w/needle, eye droppers, tweezers, and 50 or so smaller bottles of juice. I took all the batteries out and bagged them, I bagged all the juices, I bagged all the mods (sans the cartos/attys), bagged all the atty/cartos, baged the chargers, and put the tweezers and syringe in my toiletry bag. The only thing that gave me any comfort was that Priority Mail envelope ready to send these thing back home if need be. They stared at my bags via their xray machines for a minute or two, never asked me any questions and sent me through! TG

This was a flight from Mpls to NY. Let's just hope it is as simple going home. :2cool:
 

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I travel International flights and always fly carry on only. I leave my mods at home for two reasons. 1. real estate in the carry on is a premium and chargers take up space along with needing a convertor. Ego's can charge off a USB along with all other electronics I brings. 2. If something happens eGo batts are expendable versus a ProVari or other Mod. The eGos have gone through security in multiple countries with no questions. Juice follow the 3-1-1 rule and you will be fine.

I do vape on the plane and in the airport BUT you need to be smart:
1. A plane or an airport is no place to call attention to yourself or make a fuss so stealth is the best/smartest option
2. If you are a DIYer this makes things much easier. I vape 10mg/ml juice but mix a special sauce for airport/plane. This sauce is 24 - 28 mg/ml at 90pg/10vg with NO flavor. I fill a Boge LR 2.0 ohm carto and carry a small 5ml bottle. Produces good throat hit, light vapor and NO SMELL.
3. While in the airport buy a cup of coffee. Hold PV in hand with thumb extended over cart and draw. Take coffee and blow vape cloud into it like you are trying to cool it. This has two effects, one it is really cool and two nobody is the wiser.
4. On the plane same stealth mode with thumb extended, draw, exhale just a bit, inhale again and hold for a second or two, then blow into blanket, pillow or shirt sleeve

Hope the above helps and travel both smart and safe. And remember No attention is good attention
 

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Liv has it right.
I only take my ego's with me, but I take 4-2 650mAh and 2 900mAh. So I take my sase-4 batteries does add up-lol.
A good stealth liquid mostly made up of pg with no flavoring makes for the perfect flying pv/liquid ( no smell and little vapor). At least when they pat you down, x-ray you and rip your carry on apart-you handle it a bit better seeing as you have had your nic intake.
 

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Liv has it right.
I only take my ego's with me, but I take 4-2 650mAh and 2 900mAh. So I take my sase-4 batteries does add up-lol.
A good stealth liquid mostly made up of pg with no flavoring makes for the perfect flying pv/liquid ( no smell and little vapor). At least when they pat you down, x-ray you and rip your carry on apart-you handle it a bit better seeing as you have had your nic intake.

Yeah and you don't even get a kiss first before the groping. But you are right at least you can go hide in a corner somewhere and while basking in the afterglow have a vape. You should see what they do in other countries. In Spain I asked if they could at least get some nice looking women to do the work. They did not find that funny but the people in line did and actually started joining in busting on them.
 

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So, I flew back from LGA to MSP yesterday. It was pretty empty at the airport because so many flights had been cancelled due to storms all over the US. As you may recall from my earlier post that I had brought a mountain of PV's batts attys carts juices chargers syringes eyedroppers tweezers - a big bunch of strange stuff, in my carryon. There was no wait at security nor was there anyone waiting behind me. Off goes the shoes, out comes the laptop, off comes the sweater, out comes my drivers license and boarding pass. Security at the X-ray stared for quite a while at my carryon, but no questions were asked. I go through the metal detecting gate and a security guard tells another on that side to recheck my id. This new security guard does not look or acknowledge the others request in any way nor does she at any point stop talking to the polite pilot she is holding captive with a story about the mechanic yesterday that charged her for a wiper blade that hadn't been changed. Somehow the pilot did get away but not really, he was just being followed by the security agent who continued on with her story. She never even glanced at my id and boarding pass. So once I had organized myself once again I collected these and went on - hopefully it will always be this easy going through security. I had done the job of separating all the various items into their own bags, with the syringe, tweezers, eyedropper in my makeup case.
 

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Hi there all. Just throwing my experiences in here. (Am typing on android with a teaspoon so please forgive typos)
I recently flew to Edmonton Canada with a 901 no problems. 30ml of juice in 3 bottles. Just put that in the clear bag. There and back no questions. The pv just went in the box with keys, change and phone. No one looked twice. I have flown around europe same prceedre but with 601 agan no problem. I think if I was flying to US I would check everything except 1 bottle of juice and maybe carry a 901 with spare battry. I would hate to lose my 601
 
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