Duty-free booze confiscated - watch out

The_Lambton_Worm

alanrowell wrote:

All EU airports are subject to the same liquid rules as are in force in the UK - ie you can only take 100ml bottles through security. This applies to all flights including connecting flights like the OP had.

Once through security there's nothing stopping you buying duty free as long as you aren't going to transit another EU airport.

OP couldn't check the Duty Free because he was airside and therefore there's nowhere to check luggage. He would have had to pass through immigration & customs in order to check the Duty Free

Wrong. As long as it is still sealed and you have the receipt to prove where you bought it you can still take it on your connecting flight whether you go landside or not.

I checked this out before I flew to Nice from newcassle via Stansted last month and had no problems on my way back.

Official link - http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/airtravel/airportsecurity?version=1

alanrowell

From your link

Special information for transit passengers

If your journey involves changing flights at any EU airport, special restrictions apply. You may only take liquid items (for example duty free) through the security check point at your connecting airport if:

* they conform to the requirements for passengers departing from EU airports as set out above; or
* they have been purchased airside at another EU airport, or on board an aircraft operated by an EU carrier. You will need to show proof of purchase to demonstrate this. Liquid items in excess of 100ml purchased from other airports or on board other airlines may only be carried as hold baggage on the connecting flight.

The member states of the European Union are:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

The_Lambton_Worm

alanrowell wrote:

From your link

Montreal's in France innit.

Sam_Bee

Felix wrote:

You could have checked it in at Schipol, you had 2 hours so plenty of time to go out of arrivals and back to departures to check it in.

To be fair to the OP, he couldn't possibly have predicted what was going to happen, and thus made it happen. He would have got stopped just before boarding his second flight so wouldn't have had time.

Geebsie

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The_Lambton_Worm wrote:

Wrong. As long as it is still sealed and you have the receipt to prove where you bought it you can still take it on your connecting flight whether you go landside or not.

I checked this out before I flew to Nice from newcassle via Stansted last month and had no problems on my way back.

Official link - http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/airtravel/airportsecurity?version=1

"Liquid items in excess of 100ml purchased from other airports or on board other airlines may only be carried as hold baggage on the connecting flight."

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jrrowleyws

Its rediculous anyway, anyone with a little know how could make a large bomb from a few 100ml of stuff. Or make one from solids, its just a load of tat to make us feel "safe", which it doesnt do for most people anyway.

WiseInvestor_2

The cabin crew onboard the KLM flight from Montreal could've sealed the bottle in a clear plastic bag, WITH the receipt inside so it could be read.

Security staff at Schipol would then have allowed you to take it back onto your connecting flight to the UK provided both the bag and the bottle hadn't been tampered with. Since you'd already carried the bottle on one flight without attempting to blow it up, the [misguided] belief is that you should be safe to carry it onto another flight straight afterwards.

All cabin crews flying into Europe have been briefed on the procedures but sadly Duty Free shops in foreign airports won't understand our rules (I say 'our' because it was the UK Department for Transport that pushed for the 100ml liquids rule to be applied throughout Europe!).

The most rediculous part is that exactly the same rules are applied to the pilots. I've stood and watched a security guard confiscate a brand new bottle of Perfume from a Captain - it's not as though he'd need to read 'A Beginners Guide to Chemistry' to reenact 9/11!

Frustrating? Yes
More secure? Probably Not
Unfair? Definately
Challengeable? Not a chance. Sorry

cuteusmaximus

This happened to me as well! The security people at Schipol said my Shanghai duty free was not approved and started to take it. I said "Oh no you don't!" and ran back out with 2 litres of bacardi. I found the first Dutch person I could (leaving the airport) and said "Here you are, compliments of the Queen!" Better than the security people taking it, I say!

moonrakerz

The really stupid part of this whole saga is that the OP was allowed to carry one litre of highly inflammable liquid, and a potentially lethal weapon (broken bottle) on a long haul flight from Canada to Amsterdam, but would not have been allowed to carry 101 ml of WATER in a plastic container from Amsterdam to London !!

The lunatics are truly in charge of this asylum !!

hammy_the_hammer

that old chestnut ...the litre of 'highly flammable liquid' would not bring down an aircraft which inside the cabin is fairly fireproof ...the bottle being used as a jagged weapon would depend on it breaking in the manner you required it ...it would be more useful as a weapon for clubbing people with...so the glass bit isn't that relevant.
again the chances of you bringing an aircraft down by overpowering everyone onboard and getting onto the flight deck is extremely remote....whatever hand weapon you have.
the potential worrying threat that is still posed is from liquid explosive ...hence the reasoning behind the liquid restrictions