Big Changes Coming For Air-Travelers Leaving From MSP!

If you travel at all, you know the routine by now: Shoes off, laptops out, and no liquids larger than 3oz in your bags. Well, that might be changing at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. Here's what we know about the tech upgrade coming to the airport and what the TSA will allow you to leave in your bag.

The airport is working on installing what it calls "computed tomography (CT) checkpoint scanners" at the airport's various security checkpoints to create a better image of an item. The scanners can still detect explosives, including liquids.

That also means that "passengers will be able to keep liquids and laptop computers in their bags for scanning."

Passengers will still have to put bags in the bins as they go through the new scanners, but the new technology will also reduce the number of times a TSA agent will have to physically search a bag.

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Even though once the new technology is installed at the airport, you'll still be limited to 3 ounces of gel/aerosol/fluid but you won't have to take it out if the bag when you go through security.

All of this sounds like going through security when you fly will be a faster experience if we aren't unpacking and repacking our bags with laptops and liquids on the other side of the security checkpoint.

As always, when traveling, adhere to what a TSA agent tells you (or risk a fine or not being able to fly), be patient, and remember we are all trying to get someplace.

HT Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal