TSA: Yes, it's ok to put a cooked turkey in your carry-on bag

TSA: Yes, it’s ok to put a cooked turkey in your carry-on bag

The TSA is making it clear that it's ok to fly with your Thanksgiving food.

AUSTIN, Texas - The day before Thanksgiving is one of the busiest flying days airports see all year. The TSA is making it clear that it's ok to fly with your Thanksgiving food.

TSA says a whole cooked turkey can go with you through the checkpoint and on the plane.

Bryce Dubee with Austin-Bergstrom International Airport says if you're packing some Thanksgiving food for the flight, check with TSA first to figure out what you can carry on with you and what you have to put in your checked bag.

Cranberry sauce for example, as well as canned vegetables or gravy -- those are liquids so flyers have to check those. However, a whole cooked turkey, or a pie -- those can go with you through the checkpoint and on the plane.

Gravy, along with cranberry sauce and canned vegetables, count as a liquid so TSA says to check those in your luggage when traveling for Thanksgiving.

"It's not as strange here in Austin actually, we have travelers who fly with briskets all the time. Even the Salt Lick here at the airport sells briskets to go to take on your flight," Dubee said.

"Oh that's awesome, I wish I'd known that I might have done that," said Karen Andersen traveling from New Hampshire.

You can visit these TSA links for more information on what you can carry and which bag to put it in.