The Gimp Parade: Guidelines from Homeland Security

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Guidelines from Homeland Security

Extensive information for travelers with disabilities and medical conditions, from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm dying to know whether people who are fed via g-tubes are allowed to bring formula with them on the plane, or whether they are meant to just starve as their part of the war on terror.

Please let me know if you find out anything,; 8/16/2006 10:31 PM
Kay Olson said...: On the page about traveling with children and formula or breast milk it does say this:

Canned, jarred, or processed baby food is permitted in your carry-on baggage and aboard your plane.

Since liquid nutrition for a g-tube does come in cans, presumably it would work out at security. (Heh, because all airport screeners have read and memorized the website info.) But they didn't specify on the pages about disability.; 8/16/2006 10:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Screeners wouldn't be given the page on disablity. Screeners are made to be hypervigilant by receiving vague guidelines to enforce and constantly being reminded that one slip up in enforcement will cost them their jobs.

Anything that detracts from keeping the airport security ignorant and paranoid isn't going to happen.; 8/17/2006 1:02 AM

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