Flying with your E-Cigs

[camaro73]

I know that you are not allowed to vape on a plane but are you allowed to carry your e-cig with you along with your juices? I will be going out of town in about 3 weeks and I wanted to make sure I have enough with me to last a week. I am just not sure if they would say anything about having all of my juices with me.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Put juices in your 1 quart TSA approved clear baggie and put that in your carry on. No issue with bringing your PV with you. Actually since it is Lithium battery you MUST bring that on the plane with you. You can not place those batteries in checked luggage . Sometimes the rules work in our favor

 

[SissySpike]

IM not above sneaking a vape in a airport bathroom or on a plane bathroom ether. I take cartos on the plane and check my liquid its easier that way for me.

 

[Robino1]

All of my ecig stuff goes on the plane with me. In fact, I'm flying out tonight and have 150ml in my quart ziplock Baggie. The Baggie will be in the bin to go through the X-ray. My Provari, with nova attached and filled, lays on top of my purse. All my cords for recharging are separated and in different compartments in my carry on, this makes it easier for them to see what they are. I have empty Nova's as spares along with extra batteries in another ziplock bag. The two batteries are in their own separate Baggie so they don't accidentally make contact with anything.

I use a nice roomy, multi compartment laptop case for my carry on. Along with different zippered sections, some of those have nice pockets, zippered and non zippered. It fits very nicely under the seat in front of me, as well as having wheels for pulling around the airport.

Safety first, then make everything easily identifiable. The only thing I've gotten is 'I've never seen one like that' and the supervisor she called over said 'That's a lot of money right there'. He was a vaper too! I wish I could've spent some time talking to him. Imagine that, my first and only vaper I've come across was a TSA agent.

 

[Liv2Ski]

If you are flying domestic flights the TSA is well versed in PV's now. I never get asked about them in the States. When flying International though I do get some questions. Oddly enough China inspectors are the ones that usually ask "what are these"? In the Netherlands I have been asked to show how they work, not for security but because the three agent were smokers and I left them with all sorts of info and the ECF website Safe travels and do not stress

 

[RadarLuv1]

I am a flight attendant. Try to only take juices in the childproof bottle. Otherwise you WILL have leakage problems, and that would be quite sad and icky. I use carto's as clearos tend to leak, so I haven't experimented with them. Cabin pressure is not good for us vapers.....You shouldn't be given a problem about batteries, just put you juices in a baggie so you are not deemed a terrorist ; )

As stupid as the no vaping on the plane rule is, just follow the rules while in public. You don't wan't you vacation jacked by the uninformed.

The reason the airlines state that they have this policy is due to the lithium batteries. Do I think this is a crock? OF COURSE I DO! I am a vaper. I also carry a cell phone and laptop, both of which run hotter than any battery, but I digress. It is what it is.

 

[camaro73]

Thank's a lot for the info everyone. That answered a lot of questions.

 

[Robino1]

Thank's a lot for the info everyone. That answered a lot of questions.

Just got through security and am waiting for my flight now. No problems whatsoever. . Happy travels!!

 

[Scoper50]

I flew a couple of months ago to mexico. I hadn't been on a plane in about 15 years, and I had e-cig stuff with me. I thought for sure I'd run into some sort of problem. On the TSA website, it says that all lithium batteries must be carried on the plane with you. So I did. No problems departing from Minnesota. They didn't even search my carry on bag. The juice is fine on the carry on too. It just has to be in a clear ziplock bag and each container must be 3oz or less. That shouldn't be a problem with e-liquid as the biggest bottle most people have is 30ml, which equals one ounce. I also went through security with no issues with that. It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep the labels on the bottles, so it's clearly marked whats in the bottles.

On the way back from mexico, I did get stopped in security. They noticed something suspicious in my carry on bag. The woman kept scanning it over and over again. Then she called the TSA officers over. They asked politely if they could search my bag. I agreed. I thought they were worried about the four 18350 batteries I had. I was wrong. The suspicious item turned out to be my electric toothbrush. They pulled the toothbrush out of the bag, looked at it, and he turns around and yells to the x-ray girl, "It's just a toothbrush!" He was kind of laughing too. Then I went on my way.

I think people make too big of a deal out of flying with e-cig equipment. It's really not a big deal.

 

[stevegmu]

I'm also a little worried about leaks during altitude changes for an upcoming trip. I probably will only take 1 filled tank- the rest empty, but will need to take several bottles of juice. If the pressurization and depressurization causes tanks and bottles to leak, seems a micro Pelican case, like a 1050 would do the trick. The pressure release valve should keep the pressure constant, thus no leaks.

 

[mcol]

I won't be flying next week with juice, but disposables. Some I'll put in checked baggage and the others I'll have with me. I'll pull them out and put them on top of my purse to get scanned I think. Southwest when asked replied that it was okay for either checked baggage or carry on.

 

[RadarLuv1]

I'm also a little worried about leaks during altitude changes for an upcoming trip. I probably will only take 1 filled tank- the rest empty, but will need to take several bottles of juice. If the pressurization and depressurization causes tanks and bottles to leak, seems a micro Pelican case, like a 1050 would do the trick. The pressure release valve should keep the pressure constant, thus no leaks.

The bottles from, say Vapor kings, are the child proof kind, You have to kind of push down then unscrew. That will be fine under pressure. I would not take any other kind of bottle. That juice is too precious to lose.

 

[stevegmu]

Thanks. I'm just taking a couple 30ml from Halo. They are the cobalt blue bottles with push down and twist to open tops. I would like to take a couple petite bottles from Alice In Vapeland, as well, but they are the plastic dripper kind- far too valuable to waste. I ordered a 1050 Pelican case anyway. In the case of an ocean landing, my vape gear will float to the surface, where I can retrieve it and vape for a couple weeks on the island until rescued.

 

[RadarLuv1]

Thanks. I'm just taking a couple 30ml from Halo. They are the cobalt blue bottles with push down and twist to open tops. I would like to take a couple petite bottles from Alice In Vapeland, as well, but they are the plastic dripper kind- far too valuable to waste. I ordered a 1050 Pelican case anyway. In the case of an ocean landing, my vape gear will float to the surface, where I can retrieve it and vape for a couple weeks on the island until rescued.

lololol. don'y forget your solar charger!!

 

[stevegmu]

I'm taking 8 batteries and a 13500 mAh battery pack. Should get me through 2weeks, but a solar charger could come in handy...