New travel restrictions, and their impact
Here's the real impact of these new travel restrictions - business travelers will be leary of checking their valuables:
"For business travelers in particular it's kind of a Charlton Heston-type of moment," he said, referring to the former head of the National Rifle Association. "You can take my laptop or my Blackberry or my PDA -- out of my cold dead hands."
As an occasional business traveler, I completely agree. When I travel, my carryon usually has my laptop, my camera, my Blackberry, and my iPod, in addition to my toiletries and a change or two of clothes. This lets me do trips of three days or fewer without checking luggage, and also means if I get stranded at O'Hare, I don't have to wait an hour to get my luggage off the plane so I can stay in a hotel.
I'm certainly not going to fly anymore to New York, since I can take the train or drive. D.C. is a longer stretch, but I'll just extend my trips there to compensate for the 450 mile drive. And I'll just defer travel to further locations as long as I can.
Comments
Unless you're flying from a rather different Cambridge, you shouldn't have those problems. Only British flights have those restrictions right now. You're just restricted on liquids: drinks, contact-lens solution, shampoo. If you're happy with hotel shampoos, you may not have any problem.
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August 11, 2006 11:47 PM