Transparent zip bags for carry on liquids?

[Ari]

The carry on baggage rules stipulate:

All liquid containers must be placed in a transparent, re-sealable bag (ie. with a zip or pressable seal). The bag must be no bigger than 20cm x 20cm (8ins x 8ins), and a maximum of one litre in capacity.

So where do I get one of these bags?

[marshalla]

Sandwich/freezer bags - available from any supermarket and many other places.

[Ari]

Ah, cunning! Thank you.

[Kudos]

Or at the airport before security

[Muncher]

Gatwick have them for free, Statsted tried to charge £1 for them last time I was there.

[sneijder]

Any airport who have any sense of passenger service provide them free of charge. Therefore Manchester will also ask you for £1.

Zurich are rumoured to be scrapping it next year at some point, then the rest of Europe will slowly follow hopefully.

Over the pond in the land of the free, I heard of an armed US Air Marshal being relieved of his shampoo as he had slightly too much recently.

[Pints]

sneijder said:

Over the pond in the land of the free, I heard of an armed US Air Marshal being relieved of his shampoo as he had slightly too much recently.

If you can't trust an air marshall, who the hell can you trust on an aircraft?

[Matt Harper]

Ari said:

Ah, cunning! Thank you.

Seriously, did you really need to ask for help in sourcing a ziplok bag?
Are you sure you will be OK - out of the house, on your own?

[Ultuous]

Muncher said:

Statsted tried to charge £1 for them last time I was there.

In case it's of any use to anyone, you get 4/ 5 (can't remember which) bags for that quid, which saves faffing around trying to find a legit one beforehand... They don't tell you that up front though, and you don't realise until everyone in the group has bought a load of bags they didn't actually need!

[MaxMX5]

At Southampton they are free. They did try charging 20p a bag a while ago but that didnt go down very well so they have been free ever since.

[LuS1fer]

Some jobsworth at Cardiff Airport didn't like the slight oversize of our sandwich bag so forced us to buy one of their £1 bags from their dispenser. There was no need and I hope she falls over and breaks her ankle.

[Ari]

Matt Harper said:

Seriously, did you really need to ask for help in sourcing a ziplok bag?
Are you sure you will be OK - out of the house, on your own?

Well I didn't know you could get them free at the airport, so now I don't have to faff about going into town to get one, so it was worth a quick ask, no?

[Matt Harper]

I kid, I kid.....

[marshalla]

Ari said:

Well I didn't know you could get them free at the airport, so now I don't have to faff about going into town to get one, so it was worth a quick ask, no?

Yeah, now you can join the line of annoying faffers putting things into bags just before they go through airport security.

[Ari]

Cool!