If I can't bring fruit on the plane with me...

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on December 17, 2011 at 8:21pm

You can bring an unlimited amount of solid food onto a plane; it's no different than standard baggage items like clothing or laptops. The only restriction is on liquids.

My dad is a pilot and I fly all the time since it's free.. I've carried on a suitcase full of bananas/mangoes/other fruit many times and the only response it's ever generated was, one time, a search to "make sure it was just fruit."

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on December 27, 2011 at 11:15am

Yeah Ive brought so much fruit on the plane too. You can bring unlimited fruit just no liquids.

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Permalink Reply by RawPeruana on December 27, 2011 at 5:00am

UPDATE:

My flight from San Francisco to Miami and then to Peru went just fiiinnee with my bananas, oranges, and medjool dates. I ate a couple of bananas, some oranges, and a few medjool dates. I drinking lots of water :)

I had a good amount of energy when I only got 3 hours of sleep the night before heading to the airport at 3:00 am. The flight was 5 hours from San Fran to Miami and 5 hours to Miami to Peru. I stayed awake feeling good and reading a book all throughout those flight hours and at the airport.

 

I did have one small problem on the flight back from Miami to San Francisco!! Luggage security took my 2 Cherimoyas!! :( This was at the Miami airport. It bummed me out! They went straight to the trash.

 

Good thing I ate my mangoes on the plane :/

 

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Permalink Reply by Durianwriter on December 27, 2011 at 11:50am

I've flown all over and never had a problem, EXCEPT with US customs. They will confiscate any fruit you have. Doesn't matter the form; whole, wrapped, bagged, whatever. No fruit.  Last flight I had like 5 Mamay Sapote in my bag. I realized on the flight there was no way I was gonna get these beauties into the country, so I cut them all up (on my little airplane tray!) and put them in a ziplock baggie.  My sapote were still confiscated at customs. They don't even have a list of no-entry fruit; its a blanket NO FRUIT policy.

Luckily its never been a problem for me because the US is my usual destination. The one time I had a connecting flight from India to Costa Rica in NYC, I only had like 6 hours to go after my bananas were confiscated. And like, come on, 6 HOURS. Not like its 6 days. No big deal.

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Permalink Reply by Via on December 27, 2011 at 5:48am

You can bring fruit on a plane with you, but you can't cross an international border with it.  So you have to eat it all before you get off the plane or it will be confiscated.  Even worse, if you don't declare it when you get to the other country you could be fined and even arrested.  The sniffer dogs even smelled the fruit leftovers on me once and I had to pass through the special agricultural customs section for further inspection.  I once had my fruit confiscated as I did one stop over from a short Canadian flight to the States that was then connecting to Costa Rica.  If I had had a longer flight or one that didn't stop over, I could have had enough time to eat it.  Bad planning on my part.  Many airlines even offer a fruit meal if you order it in advance, check on their internet sites.  The airports usually have poor fruit choices, the oranges are usually the best.  The bananas are not ripe. the apples are waxed-none of it is organic and it all costs a fortune.  Salads can be a decent find because they usually put the dressing in a separate little pouch.  Sometimes, what I'll do is go overt fat free weeks before the flight because unsalted nuts and seeds are generally very easy to find at airports and then I'll add them to my salad so the flight days becomes a high fat exception day.  You can sometimes find relatively healthy cooked starches like jacket potatoes without seasonings, oil etc. that you can  add to a salad.  You could even microwave them yourself to bring along since this is still a healthier/less expensive choice than almost everything served in airports and airplanes. The most important thing to do on flights is to keep well hydrated because the climate controls on the planes dehydrate you like crazy.  Walking frequently to the bathroom as well as doing other exercises will help prevent deep vein thrombosis which is a serious health risk from sitting too long in a cramped airplane seat.  Finally, bring nightshades, earplugs and a neckpillow to sleep.  If you can manage even an hour's sleep you'll be doing yourself a whole lot of good when you arrive-much more refreshed and less intoxicated by unhealthy environmental exposures.

Hope this helps.

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