Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid limit and says devices can stay in luggage for scans

After finally finishing the rollout of new high-tech CT scanners, passengers at Heathrow's country's biggest airport, Heath, can leave liquids in their bags up to two litres in them bags when going through security. Laptops can now be left in luggage, while clear plastic bags for liquids no longer have to be used. Heathrow also claims that it is the world's biggest airport to have the latest technology fully integrated into all of its terminals. However, while it has become the UK's first airport to implement the latest high-tech scanners, it is far from the first, with Gatwick, Edinburgh, and Birmingham airports upgrading to them in recent years and raising to a two-litre limit.

At most UK airports, passengers can carry liquid containers up to 100 metersl in their luggage without having to remove them and use clear plastic bags. The liquid limits for both Belfast and Belfast airports have also been raised to two litres. However, other airports that have the latest scanners installed are still waiting for the Department of Transportation (DfT) to raise the ceiling from 100 meters. Arecent reportby consumer group Which? After passing through them, the new scanners' sensitivity was discovered. At some airports, more bag searches end up being carried out by hand. Heathrow said that the scanners, which have improved photos of cabin bags, could handle

thousands of passengers per hour with much greater effectiveness, while maintaining high safety and security standards. The rule change only applies to flights departing Heathrow, and passengers must check luggage at the airports where they are returning from before boarding flights to the United Kingdom. Over the past few years, the introduction of the latest high-tech scanners in the United Kingdom has had a string of failures. Boris Johnson said in 2019 that the laws prohibiting liquids from security in containers of no more than 100 milll inside plastic bags would be scrapped by the end of 2022. The pandemic eventually put paid to that. In the

biggest shake-up of airport security laws in decades," the Conservative government said state-of-the-art scanning equipment would be installed in security lanes by June 2024.

Mark Harper, then-Transport Secretary, said that tiny toiletry was almost out. However, the June 2024deadline was not achievable for the major airports, but a few smaller ones, with fewer lanes to be processed, did install the scanners before that date, as it turned out. Then said on the evening of Friday, 13 June, 2024, the government announced that smaller airports that had already installed the new scanners and scrapped their 100ml liquids regulations. This triggeredanger among airportoperators. In July, the EU also declared an end to the 100 million-rule. Since inconsistency has existed for a long time, there has been a period of instability. Last summer, the Transportation Secretary was reminding passengers that the 100 million-law was still in force.

The £1 billion package of upgrades, according to Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye, will see passengers spend "less time worrying about security and more time enjoying their journey. Heathrow is the only one to have scrapped the 100 percent container ban on international flights from the world's busiest ten airports.