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Wait to wrap Christmas gifts on board airplane

The security team at the Victoria
Airport is asking Christmas trave-
lers to wait until they are on board
the aircraft before wrapping pre-
sents.

Many travelers are delayed and
others are inconvenienced by hav-
ing presents opened by Transport
Canada security because some
carry-on luggage items cannot be
distinguished as being harmless,
said Transport Canada security
coordinator Derek Brown.

“The less (wrapped items) peo-
ple carry with them the faster we

can process people,” Brown said.

“A lot of items can go through
(the X-ray scanner) providing
there is no lead content or other
blocking agents,’ Brown said. Fre-
quently, travelers before Christmas
are held up as security unwraps
presents to find lead crystal glass-
es or other items that contain lead.

Also, items the travelling public
may not consider to be dangerous,
but are potentially flammable or
explosive, are seized.

Well-used items that have been
seized from carry-on luggage
include pressurized deodorants,
disposable lighters, barbecue star-
ters, hair spray, shaving cream and
most knives, scissors, letter open-
ers and knitting needles.

Over the years, security officers
have seized a water pistol (because
it could contain ammonia or
another harmful substance),
home-canned salmon (potentially
explosive if the can contained
gasoline), and a tourist’s collec-
tion of matchbooks (potentially
flammable) from carry-on lug-
gage.

But many of those items can
travel in a passenger's checked
luggage and arrive at the passen-
gers destination at the same time
the passenger does.

“Anything we deny transporta-
tion to can go back to ticket
agents,’ Brown said. “There are
methods for shipping dangerous
goods by air.”

Pamphlets and information
about: what can be taken with
carry-on luggage, what should be
stowed away with checked lug-
gage, and what can’t be taken at
all, are available at travel agents
and from the security office at the
airport.

Airport officials remind those
who will be travelling this Christ-
mas season that cabin baggage
must not be larger than 9 X 16 X

20-inches to fit under your seat..

Larger bags must be checked.

Of passengers have more than
one bag, and the total size exceeds
the size allowance, one or more of
the bags or items will have to be
checked.

Ask your airline representative if
you are in doubt about the size of
your cabin luggage.

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