People and liquids in hand luggage

philatio

Its stupidity. Getting from the entrance to the security area to the actual check point, you pass about 10 massive signs and/or screens telling you the rules. Plus a guy actually shouting out to everyone too to check the liquid rules (at Manchester anyway).. yet still at the search points water and deodorant etc etc were being found and confiscated.

Pollycat

I don't know if it's stupidity, lack of preparation or just the assumption that "the rules won't apply to me".

I do know there's' always lots of people at the entrance to Security at MAN airport who are rummaging in their hand luggage sorting stuff out.
My liquids are in my see-through bag before I even leave home.

HonourlessWeasel

I've flown quite a lot over the past year and a half to two years, and I love the security checks at the gates - they always give you the most time to watch people. I always get to breeze through because I make sure I don't have any liquids in my bag before I leave home and if I do, then I've got a full set of those <100ml bottles to put things in, so I know they are always the right size. Plus, I never run out of Ziploc bags.

I don't understand how so many people can miss the signs. They are, especially at places like Gatwick, about six or seven feet high. I did the test run at Heathrow Terminal 2 before it reopened a couple of years ago and they made sure you could not miss all of the warnings about liquids, you could not miss the bins, you could not miss the sizings. It is plastered all over the walls at UK airports, some places it's even in multiple languages.

It's the same with belts. People are paid to shout this at you at security, "REMOVE YOUR LAPTOPS, BELTS, IPADS, PHONES." But people still go through the metal detector with their belt on, or money in their pocket then get angry at security staff when it goes off. Oh please. The vast majority of people who have flown have done it before and it's the same the world over (because it has to be to meet security restrictions and standards), so there's no excuse.

I go prepared and I've never had a problem, except when I went to Norway when I got frisked and swabbed both on the way in and out.

Bogof_Babe

Presumably once you're airside you can buy and take what you want - there's almost always a Boots there, with the usual range of travel size toiletries.

powerful_Rogue

People at ports never cease to amaze me. I see it on a daily basis - It's as if the majority of people leave their brains at home or on holiday.

Zero_Gravitas

When I worked for a major cosmetics manufacturer, I was once stopped at security at Warsaw airport for having two 200ml tubes of hand lotion in my laptop rucksack, which was my hand luggage. It was a fair cop, and I was happy to have them confiscated.

However, they were tubes I'd bought in the company shop in the U.K. the previous week and forgotten about, so they'd already been through security at Heathrow in the rucksack with nobody batting an eyelid...

coffeehound

I mistakenly left a small umbrella in hand luggage recently and fully expected to have it confiscated. Not a word.

System

If you have hold luggage, unless you need it between dropping off hold luggage to collect it on the arrival airport, you are better off putting them in the hold.

I have a tin of Vaseline and my prescribed eye drops as the airplane atmosphere dries out my lips and eyes.

Pollycat

HonourlessWeasel wrote: »

I've flown quite a lot over the past year and a half to two years, and I love the security checks at the gates - they always give you the most time to watch people. I always get to breeze through because I make sure I don't have any liquids in my bag before I leave home and if I do, then I've got a full set of those <100ml bottles to put things in, so I know they are always the right size. Plus, I never run out of Ziploc bags.

I don't understand how so many people can miss the signs. They are, especially at places like Gatwick, about six or seven feet high. I did the test run at Heathrow Terminal 2 before it reopened a couple of years ago and they made sure you could not miss all of the warnings about liquids, you could not miss the bins, you could not miss the sizings. It is plastered all over the walls at UK airports, some places it's even in multiple languages.

It's the same with belts. People are paid to shout this at you at security, "REMOVE YOUR LAPTOPS, BELTS, IPADS, PHONES." But people still go through the metal detector with their belt on, or money in their pocket then get angry at security staff when it goes off. Oh please. The vast majority of people who have flown have done it before and it's the same the world over (because it has to be to meet security restrictions and standards), so there's no excuse.

I go prepared and I've never had a problem, except when I went to Norway when I got frisked and swabbed both on the way in and out.

Re the 100ml bottles - MAN airport has a notice on their website that if you supply your own bottles they must have the capacity on. And not in your own hand.

Re 'phone' - we've never been asked to take our phones out.
We don't take iPads, Kindles or tablets.

I seem to set the alarm off every time so usually get frisked. This time I was asked to take my trainers off ( the same pair I always travel in) & went through the body scanner.

I didn't volunteer to do anything though, just did as they asked. :whistle:

Pollycat

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Presumably once you're airside you can buy and take what you want - there's almost always a Boots there, with the usual range of travel size toiletries.

And full size too.

'Travel size' should be fine in your liquids bag.