Hand Luggage

hammy_the_hammer

Volvic wrote: »

Thanks for that!

Although I've been warned about the x-ray machine and been told that I should simply tell security I have a laptop and they will take a look at it, then just pass it around the x-ray machine as opposed to through it..

as you have been advised there's absolutely no way they will do that .....a laptop is one of the key items that they need to look at in your hand baggage ...it goes through out of it's case in the x ray machine

advent1122

They will also ask you to switch the laptop and camera on. Well they did with me, and as my laptop takes forever to boot up I was holding up the queue and had lots of tuts.

Tojo_Ralph

advent1122 wrote: »

They will also ask you to switch the laptop and camera on. Well they did with me, and as my laptop takes forever to boot up I was holding up the queue and had lots of tuts.

A good point.

Security may or may not randomly select people and request they turn a laptop, camera, camcorder, PDA etc on, so it is best to make sure that any such items have sufficient battery life to do so.

On the subject of laptops, it's also worth making sure you can identify your laptop without turning it on, because it's suprising how many folk will be carrying identical looking laptops and with two or three folk feeding stuff into the X-Ray machines on trays as they get it from folk, it's possibly far easier than you think to grab the wrong laptop as it exits the X-Ray machine.

Jamp

I try not to hand my laptop to the security agent as they tend to drop them into the plastic trays rather than place them gently. They seem to like to feel them (perhaps checking weight seems right) but I try to always keep a hand on mine to control its descent!