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    +1 for makes friends on the flight. I like this option the best. Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 8:36
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    As an option, you could make friends in the JFK terminal prior to clearing security again. Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 13:14
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    I would recommend against this approach - theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/25/… Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 14:38
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    I had this problem once. Bought expensive perfume. Flight was cancelled. Was rerouted out of another airport. Walked back to store and got the perfume put in a STEB. It was accepted. (Weird bit, store insisted they could not put my bottle in a STEB. Swapped it for one on the shelf and put the fresh bottle in the STEB. Illogical on many levels. Wanted to say, "What if next customer wants a STEB?" Did not.) Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 17:30
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    @DavidSchwartz: Remember that the ostensible reason for the whole liquids nonsense at security is that terrorists might smuggle liquid ingredients for bombs through security disguised as bottles of something harmless. The swap is such that something that goes in a STEB can't have been under your control, so it is (supposedly) certain that it's not a bomb component. If you somehow had a tampered-with perfume bottle and it gets swapped around, the next random customer who bought your original bottle would not be planning to make a bomb out of it. Commented Nov 21, 2018 at 20:02