Airport Security

[Debjax]

If you were worried about dirty gloves touching your machine and transferring germs...I'm sure they'd understand you requesting they put on clean gloves for the process, and as others have said, you could carry Clorox wipes with you.

Thats my concern. I don't know what else the gloves have handled, and I breath through that equipment.....It just spins me up anyway that they even swab them...most laptops don't get swabbed anymore and it seems like those are more likely to be carrying explosives than a CPAP....It's respiratory equipment for crying out loud....

[Gale Hawkins]

If you were worried about dirty gloves touching your machine and transferring germs...I'm sure they'd understand you requesting they put on clean gloves for the process, and as others have said, you could carry Clorox wipes with you.

Thats my concern. I don't know what else the gloves have handled, and I breath through that equipment.....It just spins me up anyway that they even swab them...most laptops don't get swabbed anymore and it seems like those are more likely to be carrying explosives than a CPAP....It's respiratory equipment for crying out loud....

Well the upside is after you fly you know it is not about to blow up in your house.

[mindy]

If you were worried about dirty gloves touching your machine and transferring germs...I'm sure they'd understand you requesting they put on clean gloves for the process, and as others have said, you could carry Clorox wipes with you.

I wasn't worried about it ... the TSA regs apparently state that is the procedure

Mindy

[ColinP]

I will be interested to see how traveling with my CPAP goes. My first trip with it will be from the US to South Africa. I'll be carrying it the whole way.

From my experience, you'll have no hassles carrying it on in South Africa, certainly less than in the US.

[cflame1]

I've had mine swabbed on a regular basis when I fly. The only airport that doesn't always do it is Calgary for me.

Calgary would take one look at the bag with it's Respironics logo and just send it through xray.

[nate fry]

Yes you treat it just like a laptop, keep it with you though. Don't check it unless you want the ground crew to use it as football.

[Debjax]

the TSA regs apparently state that is the procedure

Yes, but WHY? What is it about our machines that is so potentially dangerous? I don't like people mucking about with equipment I'm going to be breathing through.

[mindy]

the TSA regs apparently state that is the procedure

Yes, but WHY? What is it about our machines that is so potentially dangerous? I don't like people mucking about with equipment I'm going to be breathing through.

Because it's a container that is large enough to hold explosives and it's not in your checked baggage where a) it wouldn't be in the plane cabin and b) it doesn't go through the much higher x-ray dose of the checked baggage machines.

Mindy

[Fredman]

I've had mine swabbed on a regular basis when I fly. The only airport that doesn't always do it is Calgary for me.

Calgary would take one look at the bag with it's Respironics logo and just send it through xray.

The only Canadian airport that swabbed my unit was in Ottawa...Edmonton, Calgary, and Toronto all knew like you said that it was a CPAP and treated it like a laptop...no swabbing. Except Ottawa, I am sure they had no idea what it was.

Mark

[Debjax]

the TSA regs apparently state that is the procedure

Yes, but WHY? What is it about our machines that is so potentially dangerous? I don't like people mucking about with equipment I'm going to be breathing through.

Because it's a container that is large enough to hold explosives and it's not in your checked baggage where a) it wouldn't be in the plane cabin and b) it doesn't go through the much higher x-ray dose of the checked baggage machines.

Mindy

My laptop fits that description just as well...and it hasn't been swabbed in years.

[mindy]

My laptop fits that description just as well...and it hasn't been swabbed in years.

And I'll bet the TSA agents see *many* more laptops than CPAP machines!

Mindy

[Debjax]

My laptop fits that description just as well...and it hasn't been swabbed in years.

And I'll bet the TSA agents see *many* more laptops than CPAP machines!

Mindy

probable, but that would mean "many" more chances for someone to rig one of those....it still frosts me....