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Security Checkpoint 101

Departing travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) requests that you use the following tips for making your security checkpoint process as efficient and comfortable as possible.

Pack Smart
  • Pack your carry-on in organized layers

  • If you can put your oversized electronics in your checked baggage, please do so

  • Perpare you ONE quart-sized, clear, plastic zip-top bag of liquids before arriving at the airport

  • Coats and jackets are recommended to be packed in checked baggage

  • Do not wrap gifts

  • Undeveloped film should go in your carry-on bag, so that 800-speed or higher can be declared to a TSA officer for hand inspection

  • When it doubt, leave it out. Check it or leave it at home.

Dress the Part
The following items may set off the metal detector alarm.

  • Keys

  • Loose change

  • Mobile phones and pagers

  • Personal Data Assistants (PDAs)

  • Heavy jewelry

  • Clothing containing metal buttons, snaps or studs

  • Metal hair barrettes or other hair adornments

  • Belt buckles

  • Under-wire bra

  • Body piercings (which may cause you to require additional screening)
    *you may ask to privately remove the piercing to avoid a pat-down search

Head coverings and religious garmets may be worn during screening. If your head covering or clothing (religious or otherwise) is loose fitting/large enough to conceal prohibited items you may be directed to additional screening.

Shoes, need to be removed before you enter the walk-through metal detector.

Have the Following Ready

  • Boarding Pass

  • Acceptable for of ID
    *Click here to see the full list of acceptable forms of identification.

Hassle-Free Security Tips

  • Arrive on time

  • Wear slip-on shoes

  • Remove pets from their carrying cases
    *Hold them as you pass through the metal detector

  • Take children/infants out of their baby carriers/strollers
    *Take them through the metal detector with you

  • Think before you speak
The full reporting of this information is available on the TSA's web site. HIA recommends reading through the For Travelers content on the site before departing for the airport. Knowledge is power, so "know before you go"!

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