International and Domestic Travel Tips

Carryon Items - Keep your jewelry, keys, wallets, eyeglasses, tickets, money, passports, cameras, and other valuables with you in your carryon luggage. Also carry on any medication that you may need during your trip. Check with on the airlines website or call the airlines for carryon bag restrictions.

Fragile Items - Breakables should never be put in a suitcase. Fragile items may be included in your carryon allowance and brought onboard the plane.

Items in Your Pockets - The typical traveler has pockets bulging with metal: coins and money clips; keys and key chains; pens and mechanical pencils; metal-framed glasses; and even chewing gum and cigarette packs with metallic wrappers; not to mention the wireless phones, pagers and all the other pocket-size gadgets we keep close to our hearts. You can reduce minutes at the security checkpoint by using a resealable plastic sandwich bag.

Laptop Computers - Put your name on your laptop case. Tape your business card or an address label to the laptop so you can identify what's yours. Place your laptop on the screening belt ahead of your laptop case. When your laptop comes out first you'll be reminded to return it to the case that will follow.

Liquids - Put cosmetics, shoe polish, nail enamel, liquor, perfume, and anything else that might spill, break, and stain your clothing into resealable plastic bags or unbreakable containers. Hazardous materials are not allowed onboard.

Luggage Identification - Always put your name and address on the outside of all baggage, both checked and carryon. We recommend placing your name and address on the inside as well, since outside tags can come off.

Medications - We recommend that you carry medications in carryon baggage and that medications requiring refrigeration are cooled with nontoxic gel packs. Keep all medicines - over-the-counter drugs as well as prescriptions - in their original packaging. Medication and its administering paraphernalia must be properly marked with a professionally printed label identifying the medication or manufacturer's name or pharmaceutical label.

Packing - to conserve luggage space you should roll-up your clothing rather than folding it. Placing garments in plastic bags (such as those that come from a dry cleaners) before folding and packing will help to prevent wrinkling.

Previous Luggage Tags - Be sure to remove any old destination tags from your luggage. You certainly don't want your bags to end up in the wrong city!

Prohibited Items - If you're not sure whether an item will be accepted past the security checkpoint, it's probably best to either travel without it or pack it in your checked luggage. See TSA Permitted/Prohibited Items

Toiletries - Purchase travel size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and other toiletries or place just the amounts you will need of these items in small containers to take with you.

More International Travel Tips

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AC Converters & Adapters

Almost all the travel industry uses the 24 hour clock. It is used in timetables, on tickets and on all announcements at airports. As the 24 hour clock does not use a.m. and p.m., times in the morning cannot be confused with times in the evening. Four numbers are used - no spaces, and no dots or stops: * Half past nine in the morning or 09.30 a.m. = 0930 * Twenty minutes past eight in the evening or 08.20 p.m. = 2020 * One minute past midnight = 0001 Some 24 hour clocks use 0000 as midnight, but the travel industry does not. The exception to the 24 hour clock is in USA & Canada where timetables and tickets show a.m. and p.m. In America the 24 hour clock system is called Military Time.