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Post by Tulips on Sept 15, 2014 10:34:42 GMT
Unbeknownst to me, the rules for carrying duty free alcohol purchases in carry on luggage were changed in January of 2014. This applies to Canadian airports.
You are now allowed to carry duty free alcohol in your carry on if purchased after security and it is placed in a sealed security bag. This is wonderful if you connect a lot from international destinations like I do.
If I had known, I would have bought some Pisco in Santiago to bring home. I used to not buy alcohol if I was connecting through Toronto because I didn't want to have to place it in my checked luggage to get it home.
Just posting in case people weren't aware of this change.
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Post by purvis on Sept 15, 2014 15:00:06 GMT
If I read you right Tulips if I buy spirits at Orlando International after going through security I can then put it in my carryon bag if it is in a security bag and not have to transfer it from the carryon when flying out of Toronto to Edmonton. Please let me know if I have this right. Purvis
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Post by Tulips on Sept 15, 2014 15:30:44 GMT
That's correct, Purvis.
I will post the link with the relevant information when I get home later.
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Post by marielouise on Sept 15, 2014 15:43:27 GMT
Thanks Tulips, I didn't know that.
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Post by chech on Sept 15, 2014 16:56:34 GMT
So, can bring it through security in Toronto? When I land, I pick up my luggage, walk through customs, toss my bag on the conveyor for connecting flights and step through a pair of sliding doors. Then I'm in the public departures area and to get to my connecting flight, I have to pass through the security that everyone else does. Do the new rules mean you can bring it through that security? (Up to now, if I had booze, I would put it in my main luggage before putting it on the conveyor). Granted, coming back from Columbia, I'll be bringing coffee with me...which should make me really popular with the dogs.
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Post by Tulips on Sept 15, 2014 21:19:43 GMT
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Post by Tulips on Sept 15, 2014 21:42:57 GMT
Chech,
Bring back whole bean coffee. It's less trouble. I brought several bags home from Costa Rica.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 15, 2014 22:21:58 GMT
"Granted, coming back from Columbia, I'll be bringing coffee with me...which should make me really popular with the dogs."Glad to see that you concede that dogs are better suited than cats to work in airport security, Chech. They're bound to locate illicit coffee, no matter where it's been concealed....
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Post by chech on Sept 15, 2014 23:30:49 GMT
Well...whole bean coffee it is....no way I could hide it there.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 15, 2014 23:38:40 GMT
Well as I'm a constant traveller within South-East Asia I have some personal experience with tasting Kopi Luwak coffee, which is reportedly the most expensive coffee in the world. Those coffee beans go through a journey not unlike that depicted above...
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Post by chech on Sept 15, 2014 23:52:35 GMT
LOL. Well, the joke would be on everyone else. I don't drink coffee so I would be bringing it back for everyone else.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 16, 2014 0:12:40 GMT
Just like the duty free alcohol *, I assume. * As catnip never seems to be stocked in the duty free stores as much as it should be.
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Post by purvis on Sept 16, 2014 13:58:45 GMT
LOL. Well, the joke would be on everyone else. I don't drink coffee so I would be bringing it back for everyone else. OZ: I believe that was the coffee mentioned in the movie that also started people making "Bucket Lists" Can't remember the name of the movie but it stared Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I think that movie started people thinking that they should do their dreams before it was too late.
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Post by chech on Sept 16, 2014 14:43:26 GMT
I believe the movie was call The Bucket List.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 16, 2014 22:01:23 GMT
Indeed it was. And the luwak is technically an Asian Palm Civet, a cat-like creature. I was in Bali a little while back and I visited a coffee plantation where they held the luwaks in cages. The coffee may be the most expensive you can buy, but I honestly didn't find it particularly better than anything else you'd get from the supermarket.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 16, 2014 22:05:53 GMT
Sorry Tulips, this diverted a bit from your thread topic, so let's get it back on track.
So the new rules in Canada are that you can purchase duty-free after passing the security area and carry it onto the plane? We've been doing that here in Australia for decades. What happened prior to these rules - you had to buy it before passing customs and putting it into your check-in luggage? How did that system actually work?
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Post by chech on Sept 16, 2014 22:18:21 GMT
What was happening (and not just in Canada) was that if you had a connection on your way home and had purchased duty free and found yourself going through security to get your connection, you lost your duty free because liquids were not allowed on board. Even if they were in a sealed bag, you lost them. If you didn't have a connection, you would be okay cause for us, for example, you fly from your European departure city straight to Toronto and since you have to pick up your luggage for customs, you have the opportunity to put the duty free into your luggage. It seemed to start suddenly cause I know a lot of people caught off-guard with it. Since I don't buy spirits overseas, I never noticed it. And travelling with cats has never been questioned. Not sure why......oh wait....
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Post by Tulips on Sept 16, 2014 22:23:06 GMT
No worries Oz!
In Canada (as in the US, I believe) you must go through customs and immigration at your first point of entry into the country. So if I were returning home on a non direct flight ( London to Toronto and finally to Halifax), I would have to deplane, go through customs and immigration, pick up my luggage and then put in on another belt to go on my connecting flight. You then have to re clear security.
So, if I bought alcohol at Heathrow after security or on the flight home, I could have it in my carryon until I cleared customs and immigration. Because liquids over 100 mls are banned you could not reclear security with the booze. You had to put it in your checked baggage before you put it back on the belt.
Now, they are allowing you to go through security from a connecting flight if you have bought duty free booze and it is in an unopened security bag with receipt.
This started in 2006 when liquids over 100ml started to be banned from carry on luggage.
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Post by Tulips on Sept 16, 2014 22:24:29 GMT
Sorry Chech. I guess we were typing at the same time.
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Post by Tulips on Sept 16, 2014 22:26:11 GMT
I remember there was a liquor store before security at the Halifax airport. It had to close because no one could buy anything and take it with them on the plane.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 16, 2014 23:59:42 GMT
That all makes sense - you're referring to non-direct flights where the passengers are in transit.
I've been aware of a similar problem with airports around the world where the same rules apply. Good to see that Canada has sought a solution that doesn't bypass security issues.
I always get duty-free spirits but this is via the inwards duty-free method. We purchase everything at the airport at home before flying out and they retain them in the store for collection when we arrive back in the country. So no carrying glass bottles around or worrying about that sort of stuff. And the prices work out similar to overseas duty-free too.
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Post by chech on Sept 17, 2014 0:40:20 GMT
I always get duty-free spirits but this is via the inwards duty-free method. We purchase everything at the airport at home before flying out and they retain them in the store for collection when we arrive back in the country. So no carrying glass bottles around or worrying about that sort of stuff. And the prices work out similar to overseas duty-free too. Ahh...that's pretty cool.
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Post by tassiedevil on Sept 17, 2014 2:15:05 GMT
Just so I am understanding this correctly. You can't take liquids (more than 100mL) on board domestic flights throughout Canada (sorry to be more correct through security)?
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Post by purvis on Sept 17, 2014 2:44:07 GMT
You cannot buy spirits in a Canadian airport if you are travelling within Canada the purchase must be for travelling out of the country. Purvis
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Post by purvis on Sept 17, 2014 2:47:32 GMT
Just so I am understanding this correctly. You can't take liquids (more than 100mL) on board domestic flights throughout Canada (sorry to be more correct through security)? What I don't understand is why the liquor and wine companies cannot put their product in plastic bottles which would make them safer and lighter to transport. Purvis
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Post by tassiedevil on Sept 17, 2014 3:49:43 GMT
You cannot buy spirits in a Canadian airport if you are travelling within Canada the purchase must be for travelling out of the country. Purvis I understand that bit, what I was meaning was any liquid, ie can I take a bottle of water through security? I'm talking domestic travel not international.
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 17, 2014 4:50:45 GMT
In Australia, we certainly can, Tassie. The 100ml liquids/gels limit only applies to international flights. You can hop onto any domestic flight with a full bottle of alcohol, water or anything else, as long as it's not a flammable or explosive mix. So if your international flight brings you to Sydney or Melbourne, your connecting domestic flight to the Apple Isle can be spent sipping your favourite drink....
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 17, 2014 4:56:13 GMT
Purvis, The plastic bottles used to be available. I purchased two 1-litre plastic bottles of Teacher's brand whisky from duty-free at Heathrow Airport in 1999. I still have one of those empty bottles that I occasionally re-use (it's a handy, light bottle to carry a small quantity of spirits if we're going to stay at a hotel and wish to have a small whisky in the room instead of paying a fortune for the mini-bar).
As someone who spends quite a few hours at international airports, browsing duty-free shops is something that happens a lot to kill time. I rarely see alcohol sold in plastic bottles nowadays.
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Post by Tulips on Sept 17, 2014 9:41:48 GMT
Just so I am understanding this correctly. You can't take liquids (more than 100mL) on board domestic flights throughout Canada (sorry to be more correct through security)? That's correct. In Canada and the US, you can only take liquids in bottles of 100 ml less in your carry on and they must fit in a 1 quart bag. You are only allowed one bag of liquids. The one quart bag must be taken out of your carry on to be screened at security.
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Post by chech on Sept 17, 2014 12:25:32 GMT
Just so I am understanding this correctly. You can't take liquids (more than 100mL) on board domestic flights throughout Canada (sorry to be more correct through security)? What I don't understand is why the liquor and wine companies cannot put their product in plastic bottles which would make them safer and lighter to transport. Purvis I don't think the issue is with the bottles but with the liquids. Liquid explosives can be taken on board in any bottle carrying a liquid. Large amounts would be enough to take down an aircraft. They came up with the 100 ml limit because they figure that's not enough to damage an aircraft.
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