Airline Travel Discus ?

[alpine]

Are you allowed to travel by air with a box of discus as a carry On Luggage ??
What kind of drawbacks have you all found ? Curious to find out.

Thanks,
Roberto.

[mench]

Check with the airline first,a lot of them will let ya carry on fish if they fit either in the overhead or under the seat..

Mench

[Azorean]

Southwest will not allow fish as carry-on baggage. I was watching the show Airline on TV (not sure about the channel) when this guy tried to bring a marine angel on board. Southwest made a big deal about it (the pilot mentioned something about corrosion but I don't think he knew whether or not it was in saltwater) and the guy had to leave in in Las Vegas.

[RyanH]

I traveled on Northwest a month ago with a bag of Discus and it was not a problem with them at all. Even the TSA at the airport in SanFrancisco was cool about it. Everybody will have different experiences but my trip went surprisingly well.

[Huy Nguyen]

Continental was ok with it when I traveled w/ discus as carry on. But that was a year ago.