Making Business Travel Easier
Saturday September 27, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration is now allowing business travelers toting bags that meet new “checkpoint friendly” standards to leave their laptops in their bags through security. Accepted bags must have a designated laptop-only section; they must completely unfold to lie flat on the X-ray belt; have no metal snaps, zippers or buckles inside, underneath, or on top of the laptop-only section; no pockets are permitted on the inside or outside of the laptop-only section and nothing may be packed in the laptop-only section other than the computer itself.
Be on the lookout for these new bags (options now are still limited), and get ready to start breezing through airport security (in theory, at least).