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PLEASE, PLEASE allow yourself and your family extra time to get through security and still be in time for your flight. You should arrive at the airport, at minimum, one hour before the flight but if your flight is during the peak hours (early morning or late afternoons) or you are traveling with small children allow yourself even more time. Call your airline or airport for more information regarding your specific flight. (The days of running through the airport to catch your flight no longer exist.)

Before entering the line for the passenger checkpoints, parents should discuss the entire process with their children so they will not be frightened or surprised. Parents should advise children that their bags will be put in the X-ray machine but it will come out at the other end and that someone may ask to see Mom's shoes but they will return them, etc.

GENERAL TRAVEL TIPS FOR TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN

	Every person regardless if they are adults, children, or babies must undergo screening to proceed beyond the security checkpoint.
	ALL child-related equipment must go through the X-ray machine if it fits (i.e., strollers, umbrella strollers, infant carriers, car and boaster seats, backpacks, baby slings, etc.)
	When child-related equipment does not fit through the X-ray machine, the equipment will be visually and physically inspected.
	Parents should talk to their children before coming to the airport and let them know that it's against the law to make threats such as " I have a bomb in my bag". Threats made jokingly (even by a child) can result in Law Enforcement being summoned to the security checkpoint, the entire family being delayed, and could eventually result in being fined, or even arrested.
	Ask screeners for assistance to help reunite you with your bags and child-related equipment, if needed
	For more information regarding what is permitted or prohibited from being in carry-on luggage, please see www.tsa.dot.gov/travel

TRAVELING WITH INFANTS OR TODDLERS

X-Ray Machines:

	All carry-on baggage including children's bags must go through the X-Ray machine. This means all child seats, baby carriers, diaper bags, blankets, toys, etc., anything that is carried onto the plane.
	Babies and children must be removed from their strollers/infant carriers so that they can undergo visual and physically inspection. Babies should NEVER be left in an infant carrier while the equipment goes through the X-ray machine.
	Ensure all bags hanging on and carried under child-related equipment are removed from the equipment and put through the X-ray machine.
	To expedite the screening process, passengers should collapse/fold child-related equipment when they arrive at the checkpoint and place the equipment on the X-ray belt.

Metal Detectors

If walking through the metal detector sets off the alarm, each alarm must be resolved on each person (including children) going through the metal detector.

If a person is carrying a child through the metal detector and it alarms, the alarm will be resolved for both the adult and child. The person cannot pass the child to another person behind or in front of them during this process. Do not pass your child to the screener to hold. The screener cannot hold or attend to your child. Ideally, if a child can walk, it would best that the child walk through the metal detector independently.