People and liquids in hand luggage

SevenOfNine

CHRISSYG wrote: »

I will pack carefully for her , she has medical issues so its easier to take everything she needs.

I've been putting liquids (& sprays) in my hold luggage for years & years on more flights than I could count - NEVER had any of it over my packed clothes! I put 3 or 4 items in each of the larger size resealable food bags, the same type I put my on board bits in.

A small pump bottle of mosquito repellent leaked a little once but not a drop escaped the resealable bag, though it took the paint off an item it was in the bag with so probably not best used on my skin anyway (it didn't even leak any 'smell').

I'm not arriving on holiday to shop for the type of stuff I prefer to use when I have suitcase space/weight to take my own.

pogofish

CHRISSYG wrote: »

I will pack carefully for her , she has medical issues so its easier to take everything she needs.

If its needed for genuine medical reasons, you can take liquids through as hand luggage - any size/any quantity. Just bag them apart from anything non-essential and if they don't have prescription labels, get a letter from your doc detailing what and why. Although I must say that mine has never been asked for.


eta - Here's the C&V:

https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/essential-medicines-and-medical-equipment

And if its anything going in hold luggage, I have learned the hard way to double-bag it or use something like a snap-seal food container to stow my liquids.

DD265

Pollycat wrote: »

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.

That caught me out once. I'd bought a pack of travel bottles specially, but because they didn't have the capacity on - and to be fair they were 100ml so could've looked bigger or smaller - they ended up in the bin. I'm more careful now!

Pollycat

DD265 wrote: »

That caught me out once. I'd bought a pack of travel bottles specially, but because they didn't have the capacity on - and to be fair they were 100ml so could've looked bigger or smaller - they ended up in the bin. I'm more careful now!

Did you choose to put them in the bin or were you made to?

Nodding_Donkey

Pollycat wrote: »

Did you choose to put them in the bin or were you made to?

You always 'choose to'

Airport Security have no legal right to search you or to confiscate goods.

Pollycat

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

You always 'choose to'

Airport Security have no legal right to search you or to confiscate goods.

So are you saying that if Security at MAN say you have a container that may be over 100ml you can 'choose not to' bin it?
I think I know who will win that stand-off. :rotfl:

MAN airport website is very clear on the 'containers must be labelled with volume' rule.

Incidentally, they also mention lipstick specifically unlike gov.uk which only lists lip gloss.
That is the subject of another thread.

nyermen

Terminal 2 departures before the re-fit had a clear box for "oops I forget I couldnt take that". Most surprising item I ever saw inside? A pair of garden shears...

ps. not sure if they have the right to search/confiscate, but I'd suspect they have the right to refuse to let you through. I do think it's an element of unfamiliarity / , as a regular business traveller, I note that security has these issues normally during the summer.

Always wondered why they don't have a "fast track" option for people who have no luggage at all (barring maybe a handbag or equivalent sized item for the phone, kindle, and wallet). If it has no queues, people would quickly be encouraged to consider sticking everything in the hold. Unless they're flying into Terminal 5 and it's wondrous baggage system.

DoaM

Ryanair cuts cabin baggage limit to speed up boarding

Won't really help though, as you can still take your "trolley" bag and then have it put into the hold at the gate. So you'd still have all the same issues at security.

takman

nyermen wrote: »

Always wondered why they don't have a "fast track" option for people who have no luggage at all (barring maybe a handbag or equivalent sized item for the phone, kindle, and wallet). If it has no queues, people would quickly be encouraged to consider sticking everything in the hold. Unless they're flying into Terminal 5 and it's wondrous baggage system.

I don't see the point in that even if they just had a small bag or even just a mobile phone then they still need to put it through the X-ray machine and still need to walk through the metal detector so it wouldn't be any faster.

Pollycat

nyermen wrote: »

ps. not sure if they have the right to search/confiscate, but I'd suspect they have the right to refuse to let you through. I do think it's an element of unfamiliarity / , as a regular business traveller, I note that security has these issues normally during the summer.

If the rules say you can't take containers larger than 100ml (with stuff in, not empty) then there is no way you are going to be allowed through to catch your flight if you 'choose not to' relinquish that container.
Regardless of what rights the staff have.
They have the right not to allow you to proceed further.

To me, that's not really a choice.

As I waited for my OH to come through Security at MAN, I was watching proceedings.
An elderly couple had something that was clearly not allowed (no idea what it was) and they were told that they had to put it in one of their hand luggage, go back through to check-in and leave their hand baggage to be checked in and 'they might be charged'.
The guy was not happy and said he'd ask someone else.
He did and was sent off back to check-in.
No idea if they had plenty of time to catch their flight.

A family had some sort of toy that the woman checking the bags didn't like.
It looked like a piece of Lego or maybe a transformer type toy, perhaps it had batteries. Only about 6 inches long.
Anyway, she put it back through the scanner, looked at it again, then went off to the desk to get advice.
No idea if it was eventually allowed through.

I'm sure that in either case, if the passengers had insisted they would not choose to leave these items, they wouldn't have been sat in Departures.