• Allow extra time. Arrive early. Each airline has different suggested arrival times; at least 60 minutes prior to departure is recommended. To view your air carrier’s recommendation go to their website.
• Please be patient, as the federalization of security at the airports continues.
• Please be vigilant for suspicious activity and report it to authorities.
• Keep your baggage with you at all times. Unattended baggage will be confiscated.
• Please review the guidelines for what you CAN take in your carry on luggage.
• Bring a government-issued photo ID. (If you have photo identification for your children, please bring those as well.)
• Bring your ticket or a print-out of your itinerary for your E-ticket.
• Please prepare your children for the security checkpoints. Advise your children that all bags and toys must go through the X-ray machine, and also leave toys at home that could be mistaken for weapons.
• It is recommended that while in line at the checkpoint, please remove your cell phone and pager, take out your keys and change, and put all of them into your carry-on bag. This will save time once you arrive at the metal detector. If we all do this it will save time per person and save time for everyone who is waiting in line.

The following items CANNOT be taken in your carry-on luggage:

Ammunition	|	Meat cleavers
Automatic weapons	|	Nun chucks
Axes	|	Pellet guns
BB guns	|	Pepper spray
Billy Clubs	|	Pistols
Blackjacks	|	Plastic explosives
Blasting caps	|	Pool cues
Bows and Arrows	|	Power drills, portable
Box cutters	|	Power saws, portable
Brass Knuckles	|	Razor blades (not in a cartridge)
Bull whips	|	Replica weapons
Compressed air guns	|	Revolvers
Corkscrews	|	Rifles
Cricket bats	|	Road flares
Crow bars	|	Sabers
Disabling chemicals or gases	|	Scissors, metal, with pointed tips
Dynamite	|	Screwdrivers
Flare pistols	|	Shot guns
Fire extinguishers*	|	Ski poles
Golf clubs	|	Spear guns
Gun lighters	|	Starter pistols
Gun powder	|	Straight razors
Hammers	|	Stun guns/shocking devices
Hand grenades	|	Swords
Hatchets	|	Tear gas
Hockey sticks	|	Throwing stars
Ice axe/Ice pick	|	Tools, large, heavy (wrenches, pliers, etc)
Knives including religious and hunting (any length except rounded blade butter and plastic cutlery)	|	Toy guns
Kubatons	|	Toy transformer robots that form toy guns
Mace	|	Toy weapons
Martial arts devices	|
Fire extinguishers*	|

*Except as authorized by local fire codes and as aircraft emergency equipment

DO NOT bring any type of firearm into the terminal building unless you are a law enforcement officer or you are shipping the firearm.

DO NOT bring any illegal weapons into the terminal building (i.g. illegal knives etc.)

Please report any suspicious activity to the nearest Airport Police Officer.

To be able to go beyond the security checkpoint you must have a boarding pass, a ticket, or an E-ticket itinerary with an airline ticket number. When you check in at the airline ticket counter, the airline representative will issue you a boarding pass.

When you check in, please have a government-issued photo ID ready for verification.

When you arrive at the security checkpoint, please place the following items in the tray: Cell phone, pager, wallet, keys, change, purse, and anything that is metal. Then place the tray on the x-ray machine belt. Take your laptop computer out of its case and place it on the x-ray machine belt. Place all of your carry on luggage on the x-ray machine belt.

What if I forgot I have a prohibited item in my pocket or carry on?

You have several choices. You can take the item back to your vehicle. If the item can be checked, you may proceed back to the counter and place it into your checked baggage. You will also be allowed to voluntarily surrender the item at the security checkpoint. If the item is surrendered, it will be destroyed – no return of surrendered items is possible.

Even if the metal detector does not go off, you may still need to be searched with a hand metal detector or given a pat down search.

Open containers, including alcohol, are not permitted to pass through the security checkpoint.

SECURITY IS NO JOKING MATTER:

While you are in the vicinity of the checkpoint, do not make any comments regarding guns or bombs, taking these items on board the aircraft, or hijacking the aircraft. Making inappropriate remarks may result in a fine or arrest.