Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit
Since the rollout of new high-tech CT scanners, passengers at Heathrow's biggest airport, Heath, can leave liquids in containers up to two litres in their bags when going through security. Laptops can also be left in luggage, while clear plastic bags for liquids no longer have to be used. Heathrow has confirmed that it is the world's biggest airport to have the latest equipment fully roll out across all of its terminals. However, although it has become the country's first airport to roll out the latest high-tech scanners, Gatwick, Edinburgh, and Birmingham airports have all upgraded to them in recent years and increased to a two-liter limit.
At most UK airports, passengers can carry liquid containers up to 100 ml in their luggage without having to remove them and use clear plastic bags. Both Belfast and Belfast airports have also increased their liquid limits to two litres. However, other airports that have the new scanners installed are still waiting for the Department of Transport (DfT) to expand the maximum limit from 100 million ml. Arecent reportby consumer group Which? The new scanners' sensitivity, according to some airports, means that more bag searches are being carried out by hand after passing through them. Heathrow claims that the scanners, which provide better pictures of cabin bags, could be able to carry
biggest shake-up of airport security legislation in decades," the Conservative government said state-of-the-art scanning devices would be installed in security lanes by June 2024.thousands of passengers per hour with much more effectiveness, while also maintaining high safety and security requirements. The rule change only applies to flights departing Heathrow, and passengers must check luggage restrictions at the airports where they are returning from before boarding flights to the United Kingdom. Over the past few years, the rollout of the latest high-tech scanners in the United Kingdom has seen a string of failures. Boris Johnson said in 2019 that the prohibitions against taking liquids through security in containers of no more than 100 millionl inside plastic bags would be repealed by 2022. The pandemic eventually put paid to that. In the
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was almost over, according to N-Transport Secretary Mark Harper. However, as it turned out, the June 2024deadline was not realistic for the major airports, although a few smaller ones, with fewer lanes to get sorted, did install the scanners before that date. Then said on Friday, the government said that smaller airports that had already issued the new scanners and scrapped their 100ml liquids policy must be reinstated. This triggeredanger among airportoperators. In July, the EU also announced an end to the 100 million-rule. There has been a period of inconsistency since the start of the year. Last summer, the Transportation Secretary was warning passengers that the 100 million dollar rule still in force.
According to Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye, the £1 billion package of upgrades would mean that passengers would spend "less time preparing for security and more time enjoying their journey. Heathrow is the only one to have scrapped the 100 percent ban on liquid containers on international flights out of the world's busiest ten airports.
