clear plastic bag for security at airport

adindas

I always use resealable sandwich bag and I never have problem up to now.
It has got to be resealable

steve1500 wrote: »

Bringing this back to the top. Anyone know what the "rules" are for Liverpool Airport regarding these completely useless clear plastic bags for apart from xxxxxxx a few more quid out of us.
Can we use ordinary sandwich bags?

Ta

lewroll

steve1500 wrote: »

Bringing this back to the top. Anyone know what the "rules" are for Liverpool Airport regarding these completely useless clear plastic bags for apart from xxxxxxx a few more quid out of us.
Can we use ordinary sandwich bags?

Ta

My sister-in-law was stopped recently at Liverpool Airport because her plastic bag was too large! They should be approx 20cms by 20cms and hers was 21cm by 21cm. The Liverpool Taliban insisted she purchase another one from the machine there but happily a spare one was provided by a helpful passenger and calm was restored. Who knows what could have happened had she managed to board the plane with this oversized plastic bag:rotfl:

By the way she has travelled extensively with this size plastic bag before without any problems whatsoever.

DavidHayton

lewroll wrote: »

My sister-in-law was stopped recently at Liverpool Airport because her plastic bag was too large! They should be approx 20cms by 20cms and hers was 21cm by 21cm. The Liverpool Taliban insisted she purchase another one from the machine there but happily a spare one was provided by a helpful passenger and calm was restored. Who knows what could have happened had she managed to board the plane with this oversized plastic bag:rotfl:

I got away with an old Warburton's bread bag last year. I was ready to demonstrate that I could unseal it and reseal it by simply undoing the knot in the plastic and then re-knotting it, but no questions were asked.

Remarkably the plane got to it's destination quite safely.

David

phillp

Urgent update at Stansted!
BAA now CHARGE you for plastic bags, £1 for 4.
if your bag is of the "wrong type" they MAKE you buy a new one! they now have to be "air-tight" zip lock types. this is a total scam, but what can you do!?
Phill

dzug1

phillp wrote: »

Urgent update at Stansted!
BAA now CHARGE you for plastic bags, £1 for 4.
if your bag is of the "wrong type" they MAKE you buy a new one! they now have to be "air-tight" zip lock types. this is a total scam, but what can you do!?
Phill

Don't take liquids, etc, in your hand luggage - I never do.

martinthebandit

lewroll wrote: »

My sister-in-law was stopped recently at Liverpool Airport because her plastic bag was too large! They should be approx 20cms by 20cms and hers was 21cm by 21cm. The Liverpool Taliban insisted she purchase another one from the machine there but happily a spare one was provided by a helpful passenger and calm was restored. Who knows what could have happened had she managed to board the plane with this oversized plastic bag:rotfl:

By the way she has travelled extensively with this size plastic bag before without any problems whatsoever.

To me 21cm by 21cm is as near as dammit to approximately 20cm by 20cm, but that probably explains why I have not got a job as a security gaurd at an airport.

Pollycat

martinthebandit wrote: »

To me 21cm by 21cm is as near as dammit to approximately 20cm by 20cm, but that probably explains why I have not got a job as a security gaurd at an airport.

Going back to lewroll's post from May:
I can't believe that someone (even somebody who is used to looking at plastic bags all day) can see that a plastic bag with a number of bottles and pots in is 1cm bigger along the length and width than it should be.

We're talking about 1/4" too big - in a bag distorted in shape by its contents.

Wonder if Gatwick charge now?

They've always given them away free.

moneypooh

I'm quite impressesd that security can tell a bag size by eye to 1cm!

DaisyNelson

Re-sealable sandwich bags, 8 in a box from the pound shop.
Worked fine for me, on several occasions.

pelirocco

dzug1 wrote: »

Don't take liquids, etc, in your hand luggage - I never do.

Same here , I thought maybe I was mad:D

I understand those who arent checking in cases , but it would appear that even people who have checked in baggage still want to take all this stuff on board with them

I havent noticed gatwick or heathrow charging for them , and been to both airports in the last month