Flying to Colorado next week and I'm wondering what people have experienced with ecigs. Are they something I could have in my carry-on? I'm obviously not going to try using one on the plane though.
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In the last two months I have flown from dallas to phoenix twice. Both times my e cigs were in my carry on and went through the x ray. No questions asked. I actually vaped on the plane. One in my seat very discreetly when the guy next to me was asleep, and once in the bathroom not releasing a whole lot of vapor and blowing it down toward the toilet.
When I went to Canada I took my Janty V2 but I was too chicken to put it in my carry on, I also did not want to take the chance of having it taken from me so I put it in my checked luggage.
A call to the airline to see what their policy on e-cigs is might help, but I don't know if I would trust their word. I have heard of people calling the airline about other matters and being told one thing on the phone and when they arrived at the airport being told another.
A call to the airline to see what their policy on e-cigs is might help, but I don't know if I would trust their word. I have heard of people calling the airline about other matters and being told one thing on the phone and when they arrived at the airport being told another.
Considering ecigs are new to most and unknown by the majority I definately wouldn't vape on a plane
Just a "me too" reply. Flew to Vegas and back two weeks ago with my e-cigarette in my jacket pocket. Had no problems with security. My charger and extra carts were all in my checked bag. There's an additional thread on e-cigs/e-liquid and the TSA here.
Good threads about traveling with e-cigs here: Travel and E-Cig - E-Cigarette Forum
Personally, I have been mistaken for Arab in the past and maybe it's overly paranoid of me, but I'd rather travel with analogues than risk dealing with a smoke producing item found in my possession in an airport!
My SO is a flight attendant and she told me most flight attendants know about e-cigs. Usually vaping is a no no as other passengers may think there's a fire somewhere and start panicking. So it's not that they won't let you vape, it's mostly for safety concerns.
I am a flight attendant for a major airline and I would say most flight attendants do NOT know about e-cigs. A passenger approached me several months ago asking to vape on one, before I knew anything about them, and my colleagues and I said no way!
Without going into long boring detail about federal airline regulations, airline policies, ad nauseum, let me just say that you are probably not going to get a good reaction trying to vape on a plane. I'm not agreeing with it, it just does not bode well to try it. When e-cigs become more of a common knowledge thing it may change, but I'm not betting on it. People just get too freaked out with anything even resembling smoke, and the airlines are not going to want to deal with it. It's kind of a least-common-denominator thing--when in doubt, leave it off. The airlines have banned those personal air purifiers that hang around your neck as well as self-heating meals, so I seriously doubt they'll ever accept the use of PV.
All that being said, feel free to vape in the lavatory where no one can see as long as you make sure all the vapor is gone before you open that door, but you didn't hear that from me!!
Without going into long boring detail about federal airline regulations, airline policies, ad nauseum, let me just say that you are probably not going to get a good reaction trying to vape on a plane. I'm not agreeing with it, it just does not bode well to try it. When e-cigs become more of a common knowledge thing it may change, but I'm not betting on it. People just get too freaked out with anything even resembling smoke, and the airlines are not going to want to deal with it. It's kind of a least-common-denominator thing--when in doubt, leave it off. The airlines have banned those personal air purifiers that hang around your neck as well as self-heating meals, so I seriously doubt they'll ever accept the use of PV.
All that being said, feel free to vape in the lavatory where no one can see as long as you make sure all the vapor is gone before you open that door, but you didn't hear that from me!!
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