No Luggage and DAS ..Problem?

adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 14, 2006, 17:56:

robi666 (Trustee board) says on May 14, 2006, 18:05:

You will not have any problem.

"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present."

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 14, 2006, 18:06:

Wastelandlive says on May 14, 2006, 19:16:

If you are travelling FROM the US... ... then boarding a plane without any luggage raises a red flag, just as buying the ticket last minute or with cash would. Only the airline will know? Well, that might have been true pre-9/11. Now they are required to pass such things on to the TSA. That the resulting searches are completely random is a necessary fiction. You WILL be searched very thouroughly, at least on the American side, who WILL pass on the warning to their Colombian counterparts.

I don't pretend to know what the Colombians will do; sometimes their security is tight, and I'm impressed with their professionalism. Sometimes, you think you're in a typically screwed up banana republic where anything goes.

I once got yanked from a line and X-rayed in Bogota: I was travelling light, last minute, and I fit somebody's profile of a mule. Meanwhile, I used to skip customs every time I entered Colombia by flying to Cartagena via Bogota: the luggage passed to the domestic flight automatically, and nobody at DIAN ever had any interest in it once it got to CTG.

But even if they take notice of you ... it doesn't really matter if you've got nothing to hide, does it? Just make sure you hit every wicket on your journey early so that you don't miss a connection.

Best of luck.

Wasteland

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kkemerait says on May 14, 2006, 19:43:

hmmm Well, I'm not that young (52), but thanks...definitely not female, and makeup, well not usually, but there was this one Rocky Horror Night...nevermind.

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juanalejo says on May 14, 2006, 20:11:

No luggage I think the airlines leaving the US might get worried but DAS will give you no problem. First of all DAS only checks your passport, is is Customs (DIAN) which will be looking at your luggage, but since there are plenty of business people who come in for the day and leave (from neighboring countries) I doubt they will even care.

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adrimm (☼Travelguide writer) says on May 14, 2006, 20:24: