On 7/11/03 6:35 AM, "Tarik Bilgin" <tarik at opalblue.com> wrote: > On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:31 pm, <ursus at mac.com> wrote: > >>> a protective SLEAVE works just >>> great to stop this. But YOU will notice (if you travel as I do) that >>> the airport x-ray demons request you remove it from the bag and in >>> recent times place it (the laptop) in the plastic tray. > > I haven't had this problem in Europe. Must be a USA thing. I haven't had this problem in the US... They ask you to remove it from your bag, but I've never been asked to remove it from its sleeve. BTW, I fly 100k+ miles a year on United and American -- Samuel W. Hotchkiss President, Contractor Services, LLC. hotch at zlit.net Laptop History: PB 145, PB 520c, PB 3400c, 400mhz Pismo, 400mhz TiBook, 667mhz TiBook (rev b), 1ghz TiBook