sealed drinks through airport security?
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sassthathoopie said:
GeraldSmith said:
If it is larger than 100ml then you can't take it through.
This man speaks the truth, as proved by my gf at Innsbruck Airport last Sunday.
, 2 x half full 2Lt. bottles of water didn't interest security luckily for us as airside it was very hot & humid and no refreshments available. On the security plus side though, every passenger had a full pat down body search, the security guard getting very intimate with the youngman in front of me 
.Puggit said:
What's even more stupid, is that if you are in transit, you cannot take sealed bags of sealed duty free bottles through transit (although this is slowly relaxing).
The sealed bags are good enough for customs, but not good enough for security
Yep, plain stupid. On a recent flight into Gatwick, the plane then due to continue on to Manchester with some of the passengers the airline announced that Manchester passengers would have to get off a Gatwick with all their hand luggage and then re-board, because of this they could not buy any dutyfree spirits as they could not bring more than 100ml of liquid onto the plane even though they had just got off with it supplied by the same plane The sealed bags are good enough for customs, but not good enough for security
Puggit said:
What's even more stupid, is that if you are in transit, you cannot take sealed bags of sealed duty free bottles through transit (although this is slowly relaxing).
The sealed bags are good enough for customs, but not good enough for security
You can in some circumstances but I forget the details now.The sealed bags are good enough for customs, but not good enough for security
Total loss said:
Yep, plain stupid. On a recent flight into Gatwick, the plane then due to continue on to Manchester with some of the passengers the airline announced that Manchester passengers would have to get off a Gatwick with all their hand luggage and then re-board, because of this they could not buy any dutyfree spirits as they could not bring more than 100ml of liquid onto the plane even though they had just got off with it supplied by the same plane
This seems to indicate that you would have been OK if the carrier was an EU company:"Special information for transit passengers
If your journey involves changing flights at any EU airport, special restrictions apply. You may only take liquid items (for example duty free) through the security check point at your connecting airport if:
* they conform to the requirements for passengers departing from EU airports as set out above; or
* they have been bought airside at another EU airport, or on board an aircraft operated by an EU carrier - you will need to show a receipt to demonstrate this"
I'm sure there's a time limit as well (something like 36hrs - which seems a long time but you could be changing planes a few times, perhaps with an overnight stop in the middle).
I drink a lot of water when travelling and several times I've tried to casually walk though with a bottle of water, sometimes in my hand, sometimes in an outside pocket in a backpack, and it's always been calmly taken off me.
Edited by Deva Link on Thursday 31st March 19:39
Deva Link said:
This seems to indicate that you would have been OK if the carrier was an EU company:
"Special information for transit passengers
If your journey involves changing flights at any EU airport, special restrictions apply. You may only take liquid items (for example duty free) through the security check point at your connecting airport if:
* they conform to the requirements for passengers departing from EU airports as set out above; or
* they have been bought airside at another EU airport, or on board an aircraft operated by an EU carrier - you will need to show a receipt to demonstrate this"
I'm sure there's a time limit as well (something like 36hrs - which seems a long time but you could be changing planes a few times, perhaps with an overnight stop in the middle).
All very interesting. It was an EU carrier (Monarch)coming in from outside the EU and only half hour stop (refueling ?) which would seem to comply with the above, so............ ????"Special information for transit passengers
If your journey involves changing flights at any EU airport, special restrictions apply. You may only take liquid items (for example duty free) through the security check point at your connecting airport if:
* they conform to the requirements for passengers departing from EU airports as set out above; or
* they have been bought airside at another EU airport, or on board an aircraft operated by an EU carrier - you will need to show a receipt to demonstrate this"
I'm sure there's a time limit as well (something like 36hrs - which seems a long time but you could be changing planes a few times, perhaps with an overnight stop in the middle).
GeraldSmith said:
Exactly, it's worth the £5 or whatever you save not to have to carry the stuff around when you have all your other luggage.
Precisely this. If I was offered a fiver to lug heavy glass bottles around whilst traveling, I'd decline. Yet folks nevertheless race toward duty free, their blazing hoofs clacking on tile like machine gun fire, as if its a just-once-only-ever in a lifetime nude stripper show with thousands of flaming hot supermodel ladies tearing off their clothes, screaming for sex and debauchery, in a giant shag-pile carpeted room with free champagne for everyone and enough Chandeliers for ten thousand couples to swing from without having to queue... Nah, Sod the duty free
The s
t I need is already stowed in my bag, or is waiting at home 
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