Take Frozen Ice Packs On Aeroplane In Checked In Luggage?

[pinkcows]

hi..anyone taken a cool bag with frozen ice packs in their checked in suitcase? will the pressure of the cabin pop them??

[grasscarp]

No cabin pressure is set to what you are used to on earth

[Zacs-Master]

Checked in suitcases don't go in the cabin.

[pinkcows]

oh great so they'll be fine..i thought so because shampoos etc dont burst butcwas unsure as its a special gel in the ice packs.

[New Judge]

That's certainly true. But aircraft baggage holds are pressurised in the same way as the passenger compartment is (though most are not heated - that's why your baggage is often cold and soaked with condensation when you pick it up off the carousel).

The cabin is not pressurised to sea level atmospheric pressure but, in most aircraft to around the equivalent of 8,000 feet (that's why passengers' ears pop after take of and upon decent). However Boeing's latest airliner, the 787 "dreamliner" is pressurised to about 6,000 feet equivalent. The slightly lower pressure which are endured in aircraft would not normally cause an ice block to burst.

[237SJ]

In the current climate, I think that might attract the attention of the people who are x-raying the baggage.

[pinkcows]

we are self catering and want to take a few cheaper essentials than have to go shopping when we arrive,and with 2 fussy eaters this makes things slightly easier for brekki and lunch.we are only travelling to europe so i thought it would be ok to take packed meats,cheeses etc?

[237SJ]

If they are the hard plastic ones with the stoppers, I would wrap each one in a plastic bag just in case they leak.

[Hypognosis]

Wow, I thought ice-packs would have been banned on planes by now. And how did you get shampoo bottles through security screening?!? (rhetorical Q)

This morning's news is that they want electronic devices to be switched on to prove functional, nothing substituted for the battery etc. Don't go giving them ideas, please.

[237SJ]

They were checking mobile phones and asking people to switch them on after 9/11 - that's not new

[pinkcows]

it will be in checked in baggage not hand luggage.

[Hypognosis]

Yes, you said that earlier. I find it discomfiting to hear that they're not searching checked-in baggage for liquids and gels.

[heathfield]

I always pack anything that could leak in hold baggage in zip-lock plastic bags, (Wife's shampoos, sun creams, etc). Been lucky so far.

[boxtops]

I was amazed to find the woman next to me on the plane getting out a full makeup kit of squuezy tubes, etc. How did she get that lot through security, what happened to the "5 items of less than 100ml in a clear plastic bag" that the rest of us adhere to?

Cows, I really wouldn't bother taking cold meat and cheese abroad. The supermarkets are heaving with the stuff overseas, it's so easy to go and buy it - why add to your already limited luggage weight with stuff you can buy when you get there?

[boxtops]

heathfield, how do you get those things through security likewise? We buy our suncream when we get there these days - 100ml bottle of sun stuff doesn't go anywhere!

[heathfield]

Boxy - I did say they were packed in my hold baggage.

[boxtops]

apologies heathfield, I misread it as hand baggage - my mistake.

[pinkcows]

i was merely using meat and cheese as an example but my little girl can only eat one type of yoghurt she gets a reaction to all the others so was going to pack some of these which she has with her breakfast.also ice packs are handy in a coolbag while on the beach keeping my san miguels col

[pinkcows]

cool!