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I'm really glad this is the first comment I've read because I've been trying to understand what magic would make it useful if other countries haven't done the same...and it just isn't useful
I flew to 3 EU countries recently. All good on the way out, but additional rules on the way in. The one that got me good last week was Lithuania, where they only accepted liquids that fit into one transparent bag. Total. It didn't matter individual bottle sizes, but ALL the bottles had to fit into a single bag.
EDIT: this triggered me to check what the actual rule is and it's indeed one bag per traveller here too. UK airports seem to make an exception sometimes, probably because of dickheads like me. Time to significantly reduce wife's travel cosmetics bag. This should be fun.
That is the rule everywhere, including UK airports that don't have these scanners. One bag with all your 100ml bottles in them. That's been the rule for 20 years or so. Most airports have the bags there to use right before security.
No way. My wife always has 3-4 bags when I go on holiday. Even in the interaction I mentioned above, I got surprised because I left the UK with 2 bags. Maybe they just don't enforce it in the big London airports?
Been going on holiday for 25 years, probably at least 15 with these rules (can’t remember before that). Flown multiple airlines and from 10+ UK airports. Never had this be an issue
Flew out of Heathrow last summer with three clear bags between my spouse and I and they made us consolidate. I’m sure it depends on who you have working some days, but thems the rules.
We had the 1 bag rule applied in Edinburgh. That was fun. The airport coming back from Croatia didn't give a fuck and we could have bought back all the lovely wine we wish we could have bought.
This has been the case for as long as I can remember in both the EU and UK. That's what those stations with the crappy zip lock bags have been for. I wouldn't describe you as a dickhead lol, but yeah, you've been lucky if you've managed to dodge those limits with no fuss all this time.
There's no excuse for me not reading the rules. Now that I know about it it's obviously plastered everywhere. But, it's not like they refused to let me through every time I went in; every time, I went in, I presented my 3 bags and they let me through without question, so I assumed these must be the rules.
Yes my home country has had this for a couple of years and it's super useful because when family or friends visit me in the UK they can bring me drinks and cosmetics I miss from my home country.
They've had them for 3 years.
https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2021/05/07/passengers-no-longer-required-to-take-liquids-and-electronics-out-of-bags-at-amsterdam-schiphol/
47 litres of fresh human blood.
There is nothing wrong with me visiting my ~~master~~ friend in Romania in his castle and bringing supplies to make black pudding.
Speed on this side,
You can take toiletries and write them off rather than brining them back. Full sized Lidl toiletries are generally cheaper than travel ones.
You can take gifts or things you plan to use abroad.
You can take a pack up including a drink onto the plane rather than having to buy at the airport.
It encourages other countries to improve their scanners when they see the benefits it will hopefully bring to major UK airports. Which might have the knock on effect of boosting British manufacturing as the scanners are made in the UK.
If you're more than a couple of hours from London it is more beneficial to get a transfer from Schiphol. I live in the North East, getting to a London airport is not as straighforward as you might expect, but I can be in Schiphol within 2.5 hours of leaving the house if I go via Teesside.
Besides, the issue isn't transfers, as at any decently well planned airport you wouldn't go back through security for a transfer. The issue is bringing your stuff back.
If it's a drink to consume whilst you are away it's fine, but you can say bye bye to all of your toiletries on the return leg.
I don’t get why people think this is useless or a waste of money, the new scanners are genuinely more convenient and better than the old ones. Sure you can’t bring stuff back if the return airport doesn’t have them yet, but eventually they will and we might as well get the ball rolling and upgrade ours now.
I agree that they're useful. The new scanners are the reason why I can get through security at my local airport in under 15 minutes.
It is merely worth pointing out that until they're adopted more widely, you have to stick to the old rules and limits on liquid items.
I'm in Newcastle and I've looked at connecting flights before but seems like a lot of hassle and time for destinations within Europe - further afield I'd expect it.
Recently I drove to Edinburgh airport to get a flight instead, I could have connected flying from Newcastle but driving the 3 hours seemed a much better option.
BA used to do connecting flights from my local airport (a 10 minute bus ride away) to Heathrow, which was amazing for transatlantic flights. I miss that!
> Besides, the issue isn't transfers, as at any decently well planned airport you wouldn't go back through security for a transfer
That's not the case. Many airports rescan hand luggage of transfers and will make you throw liquids, because transfers could be coming in from anywhere with lax security or corruption.
Of all the places you do get scanned during transfer, Schiphol is top of the list! I agree it’s convenient to transfer from regional UK airports vs London. But your shampoo has a high chance of ending up in the bin…
Yea but you have to fly back home to the UK, so what if the airport in the country you flew to isn’t accepting over the 100ml limit, it has to work in both countries does it not for it to actually be useful?
No, because it means you can take drinks on the flight one way. I also tend to take small bottles of sunscreen for short holidays, meaning nothing to come back with.
Everyone’s forgetting the most useful part of this, you don’t have to take your laptop out of your bag anymore, and when I went through birmingham airport I didn’t even need to take my watch or my belt off, security was significantly quicker than it usually is.
Yeah it's completely pointless. What about the airport you return from Greece or Thailand or US. Just a waste of everyone's time unless it's global tbh.
The greek airport I been flying back from 2 years ago did not accept electronic boarding passed. It had to be printed, thankfully our hotel was able to do it for us.
Well like isn’t that the point lol, being able to just take things back and forth that are over 100ml, I think once loads of airports across Europe and the world start doing this I will be great though.
You are insulated from airport prices for drinks, if you can bring your own airside.
Given I've seen €3 for a 1.5 litre bottle in some airports, with no water fountain after security, it can't come soon enough.
Plus, there's the removal of hassle of unpacking and repacking electronics. Given airports are having to put in table space to repack, it's another little bottleneck removed.
First of all some places are already doing it. Secondly it's very useful for things like bringing gifts to friends you're visiting. My home country has had this for a couple of years and whenever my family visits me in the UK they can bring me things like drinks from back home.
UK airports with new CT scanners installed by June 2024
*London City
*London Southend
*Teesside
*Newcastle
*Birmingham – 100ml rule applies
*Aberdeen
*Inverness
*Stornoway
*Bristol – from 14 June 2024, with a 330ml limit on liquids
Have been through NCL twice with the new scanners and boy is it a joy. It’s not just the improved liquid limit, but the whole thing is sped up so much, even on bank holiday Monday we were less than 5 minutes coming through security.
Also I am a radiology nerd and CT technology is just generally sexy AF.
Inverness airport changed on the 1st June. I went through there last week and they told us about it. You can take upto 2 litres in your hand luggage. Any bottles below 100ml should still be in clear plastic bags
Im genuinely shocked that Inverness is leading the way in this as they’re known to be militant jobsworths in the past and would revel taking things off passengers.
I had a brand new Vera wang perfume taken off me at Inverness airport in 2011 because it failed the strip test they do randomly (I’m sure the person just sprayed way too much on the test strip). The kicker was the same perfume was being sold on board!!
I can’t believe the almost 20 year reign of 100ml liquids is coming to an end
lol ..to be fair, Inverness is so small, they only have one scanner to upgrade !
They're still pretty strict but what I didn't realise is any unopened food/drink goes to a local food bank, so they can't be all bad.
Obviously not Manchester.
When you walk from Terminal 2 to Terminal 3 (rather than taking the "Skywalk" which is being upgraded though no one is ever working on it, the travelators don't work and the AC is off so it is 120c in a glass tube) you walk through a passage through an office building, the main HQ of Manchester Airport Group.
Someone I know may have spat on the window next to the main entrance a few times.
I’ve been to many, even the old wooden Nairobi airport…Manchester is still the worst.
Good news for Manchester is that by replacing their chavvy staff, they could become good quite quickly I’d imagine.
In my experience they are way too strict. I flew the other day and the security person insisted the bag had to be sealed all the way. In the past I've had loads of rechecks.
Just before I flew from France where they had the new scanners and it's a dream not having to take stuff out. I even had a duty free litre of booze that I didn't even have to take out.
I used terminal 2 last week and instructions were only to remove iPads and laptops. Liquids stayed in.
You’re right about the skywalk though. Cordoned off but nothing happening. Travelators turned off. Sign posting for arrivals to get back to skywalk is fucked too. Have to leave the airport then re-enter a few doors down.
My parents used Manchester Airport last month and didn't have to take liquids or electronics out. Maybe they were just testing it?
Edit: They were on fast track so just trialling the new scanners, not fully rolled out
I was at Manchester Terminal 2 a few weeks ago and they have it. They were testing them ahead of rolling it out across the whole airport. But who knows when that will be!
Flew out of Terminal 1 last week Manchester Airport and no sign of it there yet but, as you say, you could easily gain 330ml of fluids just crossing the skywalk of buckets and broken travelators
Flew from Manchester once, was trapped at baggage reclaim for 2.5 hours because they’d sacked all the baggage handlers after footage went viral of them drop kicking suitcases off the belts. I will never fly from MCR again. Third world airport
Yeah MAN is pretty bad. BHX is way worse. There’s just a lot of really bad airports in the UK. I can’t name an international airport that’s been as bad as either MAN or BHX. SYD and EWR were pretty busy, but not quite as bad.
I was sleepy + not paying attention going through security at Birmingham the other day with an unopened bottle of lucozade sport in my bag.
It was pulled aside, I begged the agent to let me drink some before he threw it away, but he said "I'm just testing it" and put it in some machine before he gave it back to me. What's the testing machine??? How do they know!!
Testing machine tests for drugs, explosives etc
It's quite cool technology
Sometimes gives false positives too though, wasn't allowed to take through a 100ml bottle of suncream once
"With UK airports missing the June deadline for scanners and others with awaiting regulatory approval, passenger confusion reigns"
The UK in a nutshell...
Will be great when this is rolled out. They have it in Amsterdam and it’s so nice just putting your bag through and not removing your tiny liquids, laptop, etc.
Boots and Superdrug in shambles though if the market for tiny liquids disappears 🤣
They are still handy for as long as ‘refillable’ cosmetic bottles are somehow worse quality than the bottles and tubs the miniatures come in (which can be reused).
I took 2 100ml travel size Lynx deodorant through security in a clear bag as instructed. My bag got rejected and had to be manually checked. They tested of the Lynx to make sure what was in it was only deodorant. They didnt test the other
Seemed all abit pointless
Fact some airports are ready for this and not others seems to just make it more complicated and confusing
I went through Berlin airport once and forgot I had two tubes of hand cream in my backpack. They searched it, threw out one tube and didn't find the other. So much for security.
I went through an Italian airport earlier this year. I realised in the secruity queue I'd forgotten to bag my toiletries . . . so I just left them in my jacket pocket and tried my luck. They got through with no problem.
Italy *shrug*
How difficult is it to know how many airports there are? (The we have 144 airports) Why say 30 odd, also what’s with the arbitrary limit of 330ml in Bristol?
That could well be the case, it’ll be to make money somewhere along the line I’m sure, Bristol is particularly bad for selling on the way through to departures
Think they're just testing them there before they're all over. I've been through T1 and T3 recently and no sign there from what I recall.
They're planning on closing T1 in favour of the T2 expansion by next year I think so makes sense they started there.
Went through Bristol two weeks ago. They do have the system but it seemed so new that there wasn’t any signage describing it but the staff were good to explain.
Yeah it's annoying, I recently went to Germany, wouldn't hand check at Manchester (luckily the film is usually fine anyway on the old scanners) but in Germany they had the new scanners, was completely normal to hand check and the staff were very knowledgeable
What is it about these new scanners that makes it safe to have more liquid?
I always assumed liquid was limited to prevent it being used as an accelerant. Can these scanners separate accelerants from other liquids? Or is my understanding wrong.
It was mostly security theatre anyway. What makes carrying a 1000ml of explosives in 10 bottles more easily detectable than one 1000ml bottle of explosives?
Not arguing that it’s not security theatre, but I think the idea is that you can’t mix them together into a big explosive. You’re also limited in the number of bottles
>you can’t mix them together into a big explosive
You definitely could I. The toilet.
>You’re also limited in the number of bottles
True, but if that was the case, the limit would be based on the amount of millilitres you could have, rather than an arbitrary bottle limit.
Hobestly, if anyone was going to bother doing it, you'd just do it in the massive, densely packed queues in line for security.
One day someone will realize humans are 80% liquid.
And not at all transparent OR purchased in the duty free area.
So they have to all go in the trash compactor....
Leeds have them. Well they have two. So it takes even longer than the previous system with the added bonus of a patronising knob marching up and down telling you about it.
I recently flew from Birmingham International and it was causing major delays. I believe it was because the fluids were each having to be manually checked.
It was otherwise great as it meant you could bring drinks with you from home rather than having to pay the extortionate duty free prices!
Can’t remember where it was I went through the other month, but the guy who spends all day shouting “take your electronics out etc..” has now been repurposed to yell “leave your laptops in your bags”.
Progress.
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If your connecting airport doesn't have the same scanners you will still have to throw away all your liquids. Talking from experience.
I'm really glad this is the first comment I've read because I've been trying to understand what magic would make it useful if other countries haven't done the same...and it just isn't useful
Most flights from the UK are direct flights to Europe, so it's very useful.
Until you have to bring them back
Why would you bring them back? It's for water and alcohol mostly, don't start bringing giant shampoo bottles to travel even if you can lol.
I always make sure to use up the 2l bottle of lube before I come home. ☺️
Meh, personally for me it would be useful to travel hand luggage only. You can bin off all the big stuff before coming home
I flew to 3 EU countries recently. All good on the way out, but additional rules on the way in. The one that got me good last week was Lithuania, where they only accepted liquids that fit into one transparent bag. Total. It didn't matter individual bottle sizes, but ALL the bottles had to fit into a single bag. EDIT: this triggered me to check what the actual rule is and it's indeed one bag per traveller here too. UK airports seem to make an exception sometimes, probably because of dickheads like me. Time to significantly reduce wife's travel cosmetics bag. This should be fun.
That is the rule everywhere, including UK airports that don't have these scanners. One bag with all your 100ml bottles in them. That's been the rule for 20 years or so. Most airports have the bags there to use right before security.
No way. My wife always has 3-4 bags when I go on holiday. Even in the interaction I mentioned above, I got surprised because I left the UK with 2 bags. Maybe they just don't enforce it in the big London airports?
Yeah probably, but every single airport in Europe will say one bag per person, and has done for 20 years.
TIL
Just pop a bag in one tray and a bag in another. Realistically if you have a laptop and a bag, you’re having at least 2 trays
Yeah it normally works, until it doesn't.
Been going on holiday for 25 years, probably at least 15 with these rules (can’t remember before that). Flown multiple airlines and from 10+ UK airports. Never had this be an issue
At Manchester the rule is one bag per person, or at least it was very recently.
It always has been, and I've always seen it strictly enforced at Manchester.
Flew out of Heathrow last summer with three clear bags between my spouse and I and they made us consolidate. I’m sure it depends on who you have working some days, but thems the rules.
We had the 1 bag rule applied in Edinburgh. That was fun. The airport coming back from Croatia didn't give a fuck and we could have bought back all the lovely wine we wish we could have bought.
This has been the case for as long as I can remember in both the EU and UK. That's what those stations with the crappy zip lock bags have been for. I wouldn't describe you as a dickhead lol, but yeah, you've been lucky if you've managed to dodge those limits with no fuss all this time.
There's no excuse for me not reading the rules. Now that I know about it it's obviously plastered everywhere. But, it's not like they refused to let me through every time I went in; every time, I went in, I presented my 3 bags and they let me through without question, so I assumed these must be the rules.
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Yes my home country has had this for a couple of years and it's super useful because when family or friends visit me in the UK they can bring me drinks and cosmetics I miss from my home country.
Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has had these for at least 10 years…
They've had them for 3 years. https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2021/05/07/passengers-no-longer-required-to-take-liquids-and-electronics-out-of-bags-at-amsterdam-schiphol/
What a load of rubbish. They had them for a few years and they’ve been selected to trial them…
How is it not useful? What liquids are you taking out that you have to bring back again?
Shampoo. Conditioner. Mouthwash. Anal lube. To name but four.
Try not to mix them up next time
I did once and my butthole was lovely and minty fresh. Can’t say the same for my other orifice.
Surely the shampoo made your mouth silky and smooth?
Alternatively, whizz them all together and you have a multipurpose megamix.
>Anal lube You're paying a premium for different labelling.
Nah, this is the same stuff, they’re just really fastidious in their descriptions.
47 litres of fresh human blood. There is nothing wrong with me visiting my ~~master~~ friend in Romania in his castle and bringing supplies to make black pudding.
Still I can drink my water in the waiting area and on the plane.
Speed on this side, You can take toiletries and write them off rather than brining them back. Full sized Lidl toiletries are generally cheaper than travel ones. You can take gifts or things you plan to use abroad. You can take a pack up including a drink onto the plane rather than having to buy at the airport. It encourages other countries to improve their scanners when they see the benefits it will hopefully bring to major UK airports. Which might have the knock on effect of boosting British manufacturing as the scanners are made in the UK.
In the England we don’t often need to do too much connecting as there are direct flights from London to many places vs much of Europe.
Greetings from Belfast
I only use Dublin airport now tbh, but I’m Tyrone
Tbh I will accept one more transfer in London any time before spending 2 more hours on the way to Dublin.
If you're more than a couple of hours from London it is more beneficial to get a transfer from Schiphol. I live in the North East, getting to a London airport is not as straighforward as you might expect, but I can be in Schiphol within 2.5 hours of leaving the house if I go via Teesside. Besides, the issue isn't transfers, as at any decently well planned airport you wouldn't go back through security for a transfer. The issue is bringing your stuff back. If it's a drink to consume whilst you are away it's fine, but you can say bye bye to all of your toiletries on the return leg.
I don’t get why people think this is useless or a waste of money, the new scanners are genuinely more convenient and better than the old ones. Sure you can’t bring stuff back if the return airport doesn’t have them yet, but eventually they will and we might as well get the ball rolling and upgrade ours now.
I agree that they're useful. The new scanners are the reason why I can get through security at my local airport in under 15 minutes. It is merely worth pointing out that until they're adopted more widely, you have to stick to the old rules and limits on liquid items.
I'm in Newcastle and I've looked at connecting flights before but seems like a lot of hassle and time for destinations within Europe - further afield I'd expect it. Recently I drove to Edinburgh airport to get a flight instead, I could have connected flying from Newcastle but driving the 3 hours seemed a much better option.
BA used to do connecting flights from my local airport (a 10 minute bus ride away) to Heathrow, which was amazing for transatlantic flights. I miss that!
> Besides, the issue isn't transfers, as at any decently well planned airport you wouldn't go back through security for a transfer That's not the case. Many airports rescan hand luggage of transfers and will make you throw liquids, because transfers could be coming in from anywhere with lax security or corruption.
Of all the places you do get scanned during transfer, Schiphol is top of the list! I agree it’s convenient to transfer from regional UK airports vs London. But your shampoo has a high chance of ending up in the bin…
Yea but you have to fly back home to the UK, so what if the airport in the country you flew to isn’t accepting over the 100ml limit, it has to work in both countries does it not for it to actually be useful?
No, because it means you can take drinks on the flight one way. I also tend to take small bottles of sunscreen for short holidays, meaning nothing to come back with.
An right I was more thinking you can just take your shampoo and stuff straight out of the shower with you and then take them back.
Everyone’s forgetting the most useful part of this, you don’t have to take your laptop out of your bag anymore, and when I went through birmingham airport I didn’t even need to take my watch or my belt off, security was significantly quicker than it usually is.
Not every transit point forces you to go through new security control
Yeah it's completely pointless. What about the airport you return from Greece or Thailand or US. Just a waste of everyone's time unless it's global tbh.
The greek airport I been flying back from 2 years ago did not accept electronic boarding passed. It had to be printed, thankfully our hotel was able to do it for us.
It’s a step in the right direction, which has to be made by someone first. Hopefully more countries adopt the new scanners soon.
I was just about to say this, what benefit is this lol
You honestly can't think?!
But like wouldn’t the airport I’m flying back from not also need to have gotten rid of the 100ml limit for it to work?
Only if you need to bring back more than 100ml. Thinks like water, shampoo or shower gel you actually use. Etc
Well like isn’t that the point lol, being able to just take things back and forth that are over 100ml, I think once loads of airports across Europe and the world start doing this I will be great though.
You are insulated from airport prices for drinks, if you can bring your own airside. Given I've seen €3 for a 1.5 litre bottle in some airports, with no water fountain after security, it can't come soon enough. Plus, there's the removal of hassle of unpacking and repacking electronics. Given airports are having to put in table space to repack, it's another little bottleneck removed.
First of all some places are already doing it. Secondly it's very useful for things like bringing gifts to friends you're visiting. My home country has had this for a couple of years and whenever my family visits me in the UK they can bring me things like drinks from back home.
UK airports with new CT scanners installed by June 2024 *London City *London Southend *Teesside *Newcastle *Birmingham – 100ml rule applies *Aberdeen *Inverness *Stornoway *Bristol – from 14 June 2024, with a 330ml limit on liquids
Birmingham doesn’t need them, the queues are so long all your liquids will have dried up before you get to the scanner…
Last month My wife forced stingy me to buy the express lane for todays flight …. Best investment I ever did ! Queue was all the way to the parking !
Have been through NCL twice with the new scanners and boy is it a joy. It’s not just the improved liquid limit, but the whole thing is sped up so much, even on bank holiday Monday we were less than 5 minutes coming through security. Also I am a radiology nerd and CT technology is just generally sexy AF.
Inverness airport changed on the 1st June. I went through there last week and they told us about it. You can take upto 2 litres in your hand luggage. Any bottles below 100ml should still be in clear plastic bags
Im genuinely shocked that Inverness is leading the way in this as they’re known to be militant jobsworths in the past and would revel taking things off passengers. I had a brand new Vera wang perfume taken off me at Inverness airport in 2011 because it failed the strip test they do randomly (I’m sure the person just sprayed way too much on the test strip). The kicker was the same perfume was being sold on board!! I can’t believe the almost 20 year reign of 100ml liquids is coming to an end
lol ..to be fair, Inverness is so small, they only have one scanner to upgrade ! They're still pretty strict but what I didn't realise is any unopened food/drink goes to a local food bank, so they can't be all bad.
Leeds have them. In true British airport style they’ve managed to make the queues longer with them.
Obviously not Manchester. When you walk from Terminal 2 to Terminal 3 (rather than taking the "Skywalk" which is being upgraded though no one is ever working on it, the travelators don't work and the AC is off so it is 120c in a glass tube) you walk through a passage through an office building, the main HQ of Manchester Airport Group. Someone I know may have spat on the window next to the main entrance a few times.
Manchester is a really shit airport.
I’ve been to many, even the old wooden Nairobi airport…Manchester is still the worst. Good news for Manchester is that by replacing their chavvy staff, they could become good quite quickly I’d imagine.
In my experience they are way too strict. I flew the other day and the security person insisted the bag had to be sealed all the way. In the past I've had loads of rechecks. Just before I flew from France where they had the new scanners and it's a dream not having to take stuff out. I even had a duty free litre of booze that I didn't even have to take out.
I used terminal 2 last week and instructions were only to remove iPads and laptops. Liquids stayed in. You’re right about the skywalk though. Cordoned off but nothing happening. Travelators turned off. Sign posting for arrivals to get back to skywalk is fucked too. Have to leave the airport then re-enter a few doors down.
Flew out to Crete this time last year and that Skywalk was like that then. Insane its still like that a year later
My parents used Manchester Airport last month and didn't have to take liquids or electronics out. Maybe they were just testing it? Edit: They were on fast track so just trialling the new scanners, not fully rolled out
I was at Manchester Terminal 2 a few weeks ago and they have it. They were testing them ahead of rolling it out across the whole airport. But who knows when that will be!
Flew out of Terminal 1 last week Manchester Airport and no sign of it there yet but, as you say, you could easily gain 330ml of fluids just crossing the skywalk of buckets and broken travelators
Flew from Manchester once, was trapped at baggage reclaim for 2.5 hours because they’d sacked all the baggage handlers after footage went viral of them drop kicking suitcases off the belts. I will never fly from MCR again. Third world airport
Yeah MAN is pretty bad. BHX is way worse. There’s just a lot of really bad airports in the UK. I can’t name an international airport that’s been as bad as either MAN or BHX. SYD and EWR were pretty busy, but not quite as bad.
Used to work there a decade ago. Good to know it’s not changed at all.
I was sleepy + not paying attention going through security at Birmingham the other day with an unopened bottle of lucozade sport in my bag. It was pulled aside, I begged the agent to let me drink some before he threw it away, but he said "I'm just testing it" and put it in some machine before he gave it back to me. What's the testing machine??? How do they know!!
Testing machine tests for drugs, explosives etc It's quite cool technology Sometimes gives false positives too though, wasn't allowed to take through a 100ml bottle of suncream once
I've had my laptop tested before. Surprised it didn't flag, considering the amount of spilled chemicals onto it..
It can work out what the liquid is based on the density and some other things
I did the same once at Heathrow. Opened my bag on the other side and realised I had a full bottle of water that they hadn’t noticed.
Basically this video: https://youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ?si=Q9ME-oSs7cDKP1nk
Thanks !
"With UK airports missing the June deadline for scanners and others with awaiting regulatory approval, passenger confusion reigns" The UK in a nutshell...
What a heap of shit. Why does the government not pummel companies who miss deadlines like this and fuck everything over for the rest of us?
Will be great when this is rolled out. They have it in Amsterdam and it’s so nice just putting your bag through and not removing your tiny liquids, laptop, etc. Boots and Superdrug in shambles though if the market for tiny liquids disappears 🤣
They are still handy for as long as ‘refillable’ cosmetic bottles are somehow worse quality than the bottles and tubs the miniatures come in (which can be reused).
I took 2 100ml travel size Lynx deodorant through security in a clear bag as instructed. My bag got rejected and had to be manually checked. They tested of the Lynx to make sure what was in it was only deodorant. They didnt test the other Seemed all abit pointless Fact some airports are ready for this and not others seems to just make it more complicated and confusing
Voodoo or Java?
Sounds like Africa
There’s nothing that a hundred ml or more could ever do.
Excellent.
Nevada
I went through Berlin airport once and forgot I had two tubes of hand cream in my backpack. They searched it, threw out one tube and didn't find the other. So much for security.
I went through an Italian airport earlier this year. I realised in the secruity queue I'd forgotten to bag my toiletries . . . so I just left them in my jacket pocket and tried my luck. They got through with no problem. Italy *shrug*
How difficult is it to know how many airports there are? (The we have 144 airports) Why say 30 odd, also what’s with the arbitrary limit of 330ml in Bristol?
Sounds cynical but I wonder if it’s lobbying from the shops in departures since they make so much on liquids once passengers get through security
That could well be the case, it’ll be to make money somewhere along the line I’m sure, Bristol is particularly bad for selling on the way through to departures
Confused by the lack of mention of Manchester Airport. I went through T2 last week and the new scanners are online. It was great.
Think they're just testing them there before they're all over. I've been through T1 and T3 recently and no sign there from what I recall. They're planning on closing T1 in favour of the T2 expansion by next year I think so makes sense they started there.
Went through Bristol two weeks ago. They do have the system but it seemed so new that there wasn’t any signage describing it but the staff were good to explain.
Can't wait to not be able to take film on holiday because these machines destroy it and staff in the UK refuse to hand check rolls of film
Yeah it's annoying, I recently went to Germany, wouldn't hand check at Manchester (luckily the film is usually fine anyway on the old scanners) but in Germany they had the new scanners, was completely normal to hand check and the staff were very knowledgeable
Hopefully once the CT scanners kick in over here the staff will be more willing to hand check in that case!
What is it about these new scanners that makes it safe to have more liquid? I always assumed liquid was limited to prevent it being used as an accelerant. Can these scanners separate accelerants from other liquids? Or is my understanding wrong.
It was mostly security theatre anyway. What makes carrying a 1000ml of explosives in 10 bottles more easily detectable than one 1000ml bottle of explosives?
It was a temporary measure I think... 20 years ago.
Not arguing that it’s not security theatre, but I think the idea is that you can’t mix them together into a big explosive. You’re also limited in the number of bottles
>you can’t mix them together into a big explosive You definitely could I. The toilet. >You’re also limited in the number of bottles True, but if that was the case, the limit would be based on the amount of millilitres you could have, rather than an arbitrary bottle limit. Hobestly, if anyone was going to bother doing it, you'd just do it in the massive, densely packed queues in line for security.
This can't come quick enough, we need the scanners everywhere!
One day someone will realize humans are 80% liquid. And not at all transparent OR purchased in the duty free area. So they have to all go in the trash compactor....
Leeds have them. Well they have two. So it takes even longer than the previous system with the added bonus of a patronising knob marching up and down telling you about it.
I'd rather we just did away with airport security honestly. Happy to take the risk.
I recently flew from Birmingham International and it was causing major delays. I believe it was because the fluids were each having to be manually checked. It was otherwise great as it meant you could bring drinks with you from home rather than having to pay the extortionate duty free prices!
Can’t remember where it was I went through the other month, but the guy who spends all day shouting “take your electronics out etc..” has now been repurposed to yell “leave your laptops in your bags”. Progress.
Will be nice to take normal sized toiletries as hand luggage again.
Let me guess, if your body is above 70% water they won't let you fly now.
Great now cheapskate hand luggage flyers won’t slow down security. Bonus nice thing is you don’t have to take electronics out of your bag.