BarleyMan said: <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> While they considered allowing pen knives, I can attest that they will confiscate them. I lost a scrimshaw knife on my key chain this week. The worst part was I just had a gate pass to help with my MIL. I did not do my normal prep for a trip, and couldn't leave her unattended to run it back to my car. Grrrrr.
There was a proposal to stop confiscating small knives, but for reasons that still escape me the flight attendants union protested, and the TSA backed off. On the rule regarding such kives, mind you, not any level of consistent enforcement. I once had to abandon a keychain Swiss Army Knife (actually bought in Zurich, darn it!) in Cedar Rapids. Boston had missed it on the flight out. Sigh.
Funny story; I asked a flight attendant friend of mine to bring a couple of really nice cork-screws back from France. He wasn't allowed to bring them on the plane with him and had to mail them back to the US. Of course, since he worked in first class, there was already one waiting for him there. Apparently there is a critical mass of wine-opening-ability when it comes to airplanes! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Wink.gif" alt="" />
TLDR: check the TSA website before you leave, and if you have any doubts, leave it behind. Oh, and shoot an email to your local Federal representatives.
