An airport security officer explains a loophole for bringing water through security by freezing the bottle solid before your flight. She demonstrates how frozen ice passes the scanner as a solid, allowing travelers to save money on expensive airport drinks.
How to Get Water Through Airport Security for Free
An airport security officer explains a loophole for bringing water through security by freezing the bottle solid before your flight. She demonstrates how frozen ice passes the scanner as a solid, allowing travelers to save money on expensive airport drinks.
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Freeze your water bottle solid the night before you fly, and watch what happens when it hits my scanner.
Freeze your water bottle solid the night before you fly, and watch what happens when it hits my scanner. 20 years at this checkpoint and this is the one trick I wish everybody knew. You already know I can't let a full bottle of water through because it reads as a liquid and it goes right in my bin. But freeze that same bottle rock solid overnight and it comes through as ice, not liquid, so it clears clean every time. By the time you reach your gate, it's melting into ice cold water you paid nothing for instead of that $7 bottle they've got waiting the second you're thirsty on the other side. That's one of a hundred little tricks in my Insider Travel Playbook comment PDF, and I'll send it your way.
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