For sure, I'm not advocating this move as a good one, and I can only start to imagine the chaos and inconvenience the cones at the airport must create, but it is a half French island, and the French in general have taken a lot of hits in this terrorist war and SXM does derive most of their tourism as Americans, no? And wasn't there talk about visitors from the Middle East having been caught traveling through SXM on false passports?

None of these inconveniences - be they three ounce or less bottles and/or pat downs for infants and grannies not to mention having to half undress in the securety lines at the airport - are appreciated by any of us, but they do say 'an ounce of protection.....' I guess, in the end, what we think really isn't going to have much effect on the government - here or there.

We can only hope that in a few weeks they'll tire of the complaining and go back to the way it's always been, and those of us who have spoken out in opposition to it in the first place will have to hope and pray nothing does happen there. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />