Hi GAC,

We were allowed to keep nail clippers in our carryon last April.

We use them to open the cable ties on our checked baggage.

Yes, that is what I meant too, the odd contraption kind, that looks a little like a metal cricket, is ok.

Go to TSA web page and you will know what you can and what you can't!

The poster above is right about Newark, they seem to have their own rules. Why is it that what is OK at one airport isn't at another? We seem to be operating under a mixed set of rules. At one airport you can wear your shoes thru, at another you can't. At one I can get thru with my watch on and at another I can't. It doesn't make sense.

As far as the nail clippers go, stick the stupid things in you luggage and bite your nail on the plane.

I can't think of anything worse than a person who decides to clip their nails on a plane or anywhere else in public.

What if i decided to trim my nose hairs or maybe floss my teeth while sitting in my seat?

Please do you grooming in the privacy of your own home!

richardab,

You are jumping to conclusions...thinking that they want to use the clippers fopr grooming.

I'm with Ira on this one.
I always carry nail clippers (toe nail clippers, actually). I bought them exclusively to use to cut plastic cable ties on my luggage.

"What if i decided to trim my nose hairs or maybe floss my teeth while sitting in my seat?"

an upgrade from the person I sat next to on a Detroit to L.A. flight last week, but still something I'd rather not see.
((H))

Oh! sorry about that. I usually bite those security things off with my teeth.

I still think it rude when someone grooms in public. This includes excessive hair brushing, nail clipping, putting on make up, cleaning contact lenses, eye dropping and ear picking.

Applying chapstick, hand cream and nose picking is OK.