> There is apparently a new requirement that checked baggage should not be
> locked. Given the value of optics that is a powerful reason for taking as
> carry-on.

My experience so far is that checked baggage needs to be unlocked only at
check-in for inspection. After that, either you or they will lock it up
before it disappears from your sight to the baggage room.

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Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA
currently at
Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, SLO Co., CA

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought" --Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893-1986).
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