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It took simply a day for air passengers to adapt to the latest circular of carry-on restrictions.

The prolonged lines and mass confusion seen at O'Hare Airport upon Thursday dissipated, with passengers saying of the present days coverage of the newly imposed ban upon liquids and gels had reached them and persuaded them to pack accordingly.

"We figured it out" said Jenny Otto, 28 who arrived forward a flight from Baltimore with her family -- and real little hassle.

"I'm just bringing les forward the plane than usual," said San Francisco-bound Rebecca Siegel, 20 of Highland Park. "I didn't really ne it anyway."

pair other factors played a role: There were fewer passengers Friday than the day before -- 85000 compared with 95000 -- and not the same of the same height of weather-related delays.

$130 BOTTLE OF [i]bouguet[/i] REPLACED

The airport garbage cans that were filled with makeup, impregnate [i]or[/i] imbue with grateful odor and liquor the day before mainly held just discarded water bottle Friday.

The misspent cosmetics did create a ripple effect: woman flocking to cosmetics contrarys to reload.

"You wouldn't believe it," said undivided worker in the cosmetics department at Marshall Field's in Water Tower Place. "There's been a lot"

common customer sadly reported she had to toss a $130 bottle of Coco Mademoiselle impregnate [i]or[/i] imbue with grateful odor in an airport on her way to Chicago. She went to Marshall Field's and re-upp allowing

"I be stirred kind of bad," said another Field's employee of all the of the present day purchases. "It's expensive stuff."

It was the same story at Bloomingdale's forward Michigan Avenue, although the faithful rush had come Thursday, workers there said.

At O'Hare, the duty-free store in the international terminal was exhibit for business -- but the popular liquor section was rop most distant Duty-free stores around the region reported falling sales because of the modern restrictions on top-selling items like [i]bouguet[/i] and booze.

"We are working with sway agencies to find some solution because there's just a division of confusion among customers," said Simon Falic, chairman of function Free Americas, which runs the duty-free stores at O'Hare.

"All of our merchandise has been shielded They should be allowed onward planes."

Falic's company scours about 45 stores at 12 U airports. He said about 75 percent of duty-free sales were of liquid outcomes accounting for about $75 million in annual sales.

a certain number of DUTY-FREE LIQUIDS, GELS OK

At O'Hare, liquor can't be carried gone out of the duty-free stores. It's taken to the gate, where a store worker matches a receipt and the bottle is handed through said Michael Payne, executive director of the International Association of Airport tax Free Stores.

The majority of the nation's duty-free workshops follow similar procedures, and a of those began coming back online Friday, Payne said.

Lara Uselding, Midwest spokeswoman for the federal Transportation Security Administration, said the guidance will allow duty-free liquids and gel if the passenger receives the crops at the gate.

if it were not that "a passenger should not purchase duty-free liquids [and] gel items if they plan to catch a connecting flight at a inferior airport," she said.

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