Travelling with regs as Hand baggage?

Done a search on google and I think I know the answer, so just checking in
case the rules have changed.

Got cases packing and only 18kg over standard baggage limit! OK as airline
have allowed additional 20kg (i.e 2x10kg) for hold baggage

As we havent got any hand baggage at all (except a handbag that doesnt
count), I have been thinking (bad I know). At the moment regs (2 sets) are
packed inside the dive bag between the bcd in there own padded cases - I am
now however getting concerned that they shouldnt be in the case at all (risk
of damage from handling rather than issues about condition in the hold) and
am thinking about taking out the two reg bags, shoving them into a carrier
bag and taking as hand luggage (2 regs should be fit inside the 5kg cabin
baggage limit) - and reduce the hold luggage by the same!

Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather than
hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I guess
they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of metal -
also know as the 1st stage)

"Simon#" <Simon@nospam.nn> wrote in message
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> Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather than
> hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I guess
> they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of metal -
> also know as the 1st stage)

I've carried my regs as hand luggage several times to Australia, Egypt
and Spain and never had a problem. At the worst, the x-ray machine
people open the bag and have a quick squint at the contents and I've
said 'scuba diving...') but they have never looked like querying it
further. YMMV.

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Simon# <Simon@nospam.nn> wrote:

> Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather than
> hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them?

I always do and no problem other than a hand search sometimes

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> Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather
than
> hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I guess
> they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of
metal -
> also know as the 1st stage)
>
I've not long since travelled to and fro Truk with my regs in a bag because
I was over weight on my hold lugage.

It was the check in people who suggested do this, we had 2 x 30kg allowance
from Gatwick all the way to Truk via the US and muggins here still over did
it trying for one bag.

The bagage handlers won't touch a bag over 30kgs.

Through loads of airport scanners with reg bag and ruck sack no problems
even in the US.

Paul

"Paul" <PauldottLindstrom@t-online.de> wrote in message
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>
> > Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather
> than
> > hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I guess
> > they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of
> metal -
> > also know as the 1st stage)
> >
> I've not long since travelled to and fro Truk with my regs in a bag
because
> I was over weight on my hold lugage.

I just wouldn't trust my regs or computer to the bag apes...

> It was the check in people who suggested do this, we had 2 x 30kg
allowance
> from Gatwick all the way to Truk via the US and muggins here still over
did
> it trying for one bag.
>
> The bagage handlers won't touch a bag over 30kgs.

Not true, last time out of the UK we weighed in at 32kg out and 34kg back.
It just gets a "heavy" label on it...

> Through loads of airport scanners with reg bag and ruck sack no problems
> even in the US.
>
> Paul

I came back from Orlando with regs, computer, video camera, stills cameras,
mobile phones....

....needless to say people behind the scanner started to look VERY twitchy!
I would love to have seen the X-ray with all the electronics, big lumps of
metal and pipework! They were fine when they opened it up and saw what was
actually in there.

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"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul" <PauldottLindstrom@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> >
> > > Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather
> > than
> > > hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I
guess
> > > they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of
> > metal -
> > > also know as the 1st stage)
> > >
> > I've not long since travelled to and fro Truk with my regs in a bag
> because
> > I was over weight on my hold lugage.
>
> I just wouldn't trust my regs or computer to the bag apes...


But, another thing to consider is that if you have something reflective
(foil, metal) in your hand luggage, the xray has another bite at a higher
power. It took me a while to find out why floppy discs were only getting
corrupted when I flew budget airlines and it is apparently down to the can
of coke and crisps that I took on board with me. I also lost an electronic
device to this in the summer. I actually found this out from a Kodak
information sheet.

Keith

> I've not long since travelled to and fro Truk with my regs in a bag because
> I was over weight on my hold lugage.
>
> It was the check in people who suggested do this, we had 2 x 30kg allowance
> from Gatwick all the way to Truk via the US and muggins here still over did
> it trying for one bag.
>
> The bagage handlers won't touch a bag over 30kgs.
>
> Through loads of airport scanners with reg bag and ruck sack no problems
> even in the US.
>
On the way back from the Red Sea last year, the security chap pulled the
regs out of my bag and asked me if I was a Doctor??? Then he proceeded
to making bashing movements suggesting that I might use the first stage
as a bludgeoning tool... hmmm :(

Eventually got it onto the plane, but did lose a pair of Pliers (nipple
tweakers?) and an adjustable spanner (cosh?)..

We take our regs as hand luggage


as for the item snipped in below change that to 45kg as told to us at a
check-in for a cruise we were allowed 45kg each and one bag was 47kg so had
to move a couple of items


>
> The bagage handlers won't touch a bag over 30kgs.


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"Simon#" wrote

> Does this sound advisable? Would people here take regs and hand rather
than
> hold? Is there ever a problem going through security with them? (I guess
> they are pretty common - though could cause damage with the lump of
metal -
> also know as the 1st stage)

My regulators, computers and masks always travel as hand baggage. Just last
week, the wisdom of doing this proved itself. My checked bag came out with
the top open and half my clothing hanging out. It was quite clear that
somebody had gone through it. Things that had previously been on the
bottom, were now on the top. The airline blamed the security people.
Personally, I doubt that a lot. Security marks bags they check and use wire
ties to keep them closed. Further, they check them at the origination of
the flight, not the end. Since it appears that everything came through with
the bag, I find it very hard to accept that the bag traveled the way it came
off the line.

Lee

"Paul" wrote

> I think it takes a determined bagage handler to damager a reg set in a
> padded reg bag packed in the middle of my dive kit.

It does not take a particularly determined one to steal one.

Lee