Written by: BTI UK Travel Alert
UK AIRPORTS BAGGAGE POLICY
Bulletin issued by BTI UK Travel Alert Service:
09.05 – 10 August 2006
Please be advised of the following development(s) that may impact your travel program:
Further to today’s national security alert at UK airports, the Department for Transport (DoT) has issued additional security measures. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to all passengers starting their journey at a UK airport and to those transferring between flights at a UK airport.
All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports.
Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items. Nothing may be carried in pockets:
-pocketsize wallets and pocket size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc (not handbags));
-travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets);
-prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (eg diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.
-spectacles and sunglasses, without cases.
-contact lens holders, without bottles of solution.
-for those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags).
-female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (eg tampons, pads, towels and wipes).
-tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs
-keys (but no electrical key fobs)
All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened.
Pushchairs and walking aids must be x-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs may pass through the screening point.
In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to a secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered must be removed from the passenger.
There are no changes to current hold baggage security measures.
Regrettably, significant delays at airports are inevitable. Passengers are being asked to allow themselves plenty of extra time and to ensure that other than the few permitted items listed above; all their belongings are placed in their hold baggage and checked in.
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Written by: coleman
yes, the intelligence services stopped this plot - but have you considered what that means, what a massive intelligence operation like that involves...?
i am confused at why are you not outraged at the massive invasion of privacy that must have been committed by the intelligence services to track and prevent an attack of this magnitude?
-Mike
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Written by: Brit_Joe
Just say that this plot was missed by Scottland Yard, if these measures were standard then they might be enough to stop it from happening.
-Mike
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Written by: Doc Lightning
Airport security simply stops honest people from blowing up planes just like locks stop honest people from stealing.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Written by: NYC
These guys were caught BECAUSE of Airport security. Indirectly. They were mixing liquids because if they had just gotten 10 sticks of dynamite they wouldn't have passed airport security. This catch was an example of how airport security worked perfectly. It caused the terrorists to alter their plans enough to get them caught.
-Mike
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Written by: stout
If they're going to disallow little tubes of lipgloss, then what about those jello filled bras? Or breast implants ? One could imagine using an insulin needle to transfer a liquid from boob L , to boob R, give it a good smack and Kaboom!!!!
Now might be a good time to thing about selling off those airline shares and investing in the counterterrorism industry
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Written by: NYC
I'm surpised that Mike is so anti-security. We can blow up half of Lebanon looking for terrorists as long as Mike doesn't have to wait a few extra minutes in a security line?
-Mike
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Written by: Dedphrog
Personaly I'll take all of this in hindsight. Yes, it's now a bigger pain in the butt to fly, but if the millions of people that fly in the next year make it where there going safely then I'd say it's worth the added trouble.
-Mike
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Written by: Doc Lightning
In medicine we have a concept of "number needed to treat." That is the number of people with a condition that you need to treat to prevent a bad outcome.
In this case the NNT is on the order of millions. They're talking about making these restrictions permanent.
Think of what that would mean: I certainly am not ever going to go to England again if it means getting crammed on a plane for 8 hours with no book to read. No parent with small children would do this, either because you cannot possibly entertain a 4-year-old boy on a plane for several hours with...nothing. This would totally destroy the leisure air travel market in and out of England. Airlines rely on this market and so they would probably go out of business. Essentially, this would destroy mass air transport in rather short order. Only a few airlines that cater to only business passengers, like MaxJet, would remain.
And all because we're afraid.
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Written by: onewheeldave
As a little side-thought, it occurs to me that that outcome would be really good from an environmental perspective.
Given that airplanes are so environmentally destructive and that the numbers using them is increasing, a decrease in how convenient they are, is, arguably, a good thing.
-Mike
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Written by: ravehead
How far does it have to go before people start asking simple questions about what they are being made to do in the name of security?
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Written by: onewheeldave
Then again, the idea is that two (or more) specific liquids are mixed, in very specific quantities, placed, in a very specific part of an airplane (ie in a location where explosion will bring down the plane) and triggered.
Thus a relatively small quantity (necessarily small to aid with getting on the plane without attracting attention) causes maximum casualities (a plane full).
Dumping the liquids in bins is not an ideal method of disposal (as we'd expect, due to the short notice that precautions had to be put in place), but, realistically, any explosions due to the mixtures is definitly not going to approach anywhere near that of a plane going down.
In fact, any explosion is likely to be very minor, harming at most, a few people.
Additionally, given the need for specific quantities and ideal mixing conditions, the fact that the bins are also full of a lot of genuine baby milk, shampoo etc; means an actual explosion is highly unlikely.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Written by: onewheeldave
Then again, the idea is that two (or more) specific liquids are mixed, in very specific quantities, placed, in a very specific part of an airplane (ie in a location where explosion will bring down the plane) and triggered.
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: NY Times
News of the latest plot on Thursday set off a huge security clamp-down at British airports - particularly at Heathrow in London, Europe's busiest - that resulted in equally huge delays and cancellations in flight schedules. Two airlines, British Airways and Ryanair, warned Saturday that unless security procedures were accelerated, airports would no longer be able to cope with the hundreds of thousands of passengers trying to fly out of Britain every day.
Mr. Reid hinted the security clamp-down may be eased, saying it was "time limited." But he did not say when.
He also said the latest plot provided fresh evidence to support police demands for counterterrorism laws to be amended to permit detention of people without trial or charge for 90 days. The current limit is 28 days.
While the government insists that the latest plot was real, many of its critics today started to question publicly the veracity of the government's depiction of it, citing previous occasions - including an intelligence dossier used to justify the invasion of Iraq 2003 - when official assertions of a threat proved wrong.
Mr. Blair is on vacation in the Caribbean. His absence has been criticized by adversaries who contend that if the plot was as serious as Mr. Reid and others maintain, he should return home.
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura