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.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: BBC
"The goal of these terrorists and extremists is not just to kill but also to disrupt the economic life of Britain," Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary said.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Lightning
Now, explain to me, someone how a paperback book is dangerous when a passport isn't.
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But you can make the Bastard work for it."
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Written by: onewheeldaveWritten by: Lightning
Now, explain to me, someone how a paperback book is dangerous when a passport isn't.
Carve out the pages between the covers and use it to store explosives?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Written by: steaks
Yes it is a money spinning scam that you have to replace things like books and drinks from shops within the departure lounge. But if it makes the whole process quicker, easier and safer then I for one am willing to allow it.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Doc Lightning
My argument is that this is a knee-jerk reaction. That banning paperback books and lipstick isn't doing anything --not jack squat-- to make people safer.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?
Written by: ravehead
so in my point of view, the modern terrorist need only make a threat. why expend life to cause uproar and panic, just call in a bomb threat
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
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Written by: NYC
I'm really surprised about your views on this one Mike. 9/11 actually happened. And 9/11 was 100% preventable if airport security had been better at the time.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Stone
I don’t think ALL this extra security makes much difference. Like, I head on the radio yesterday that two grenades were found in Australian soldier’s bag after landing, when he returned home on a commercial flight.
Written by: Doc Lightning
Plastic blades can be concealed in apparel
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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Written by: Doc Lightning
WHAT two liquids? what do they look like? Clearly if the terrorists know, it's not dangerous to tell the public.
Written by: bbc news
Home Secretary John Reid said the change was made because an attack was "highly likely" but not "imminent".
The change in the threat level means the ban on taking hand luggage on to flights from the UK has been lifted, although some restrictions remain.
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Written by: coleman
what i don't like is talk of using this situation to push the case for even tougher legislation against suspected terrorists.
28 days detention should be long enough - a case for prosecution should be built alongside the intelligence operation.
cole. x
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Written by: Kyrian
(I just hope I don't have to remember to remove my tweezers from my hand luggge *again*... )
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Written by: colemanWritten by: Doc Lightning
mike, you accused the security services/government/police of knee jerk reactions?
well, i say that its you who has the most jerky knees of all of us.
police state?
a situation thats inevitably leading to the dissolution of our liberty?
'reactionary boll0cks' might be a suitable definition hereWritten by:
Oh no, I stand by this one.
Suddenly in our country it's OK to hold people, even American Citizens, without trial, bond, or charges. It's OK to randomly search people in public spaces (the subway). It's OK for the government to keep track of who is checking out which books from the library.
None of this was OK on Sept. 10 2001. And every time something like this happens they come up with another "it's OK to..."
We'll talk about this in another 10 years, Cole. If talking is still OK then.-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Doc Lightning
Suddenly in our country it's OK to hold people, even American Citizens, without trial, bond, or charges. It's OK to randomly search people in public spaces (the subway). It's OK for the government to keep track of who is checking out which books from the library.
None of this was OK on Sept. 10 2001. And every time something like this happens they come up with another "it's OK to..."
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Written by: coleman
that last question can't be serious?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Doc LightningWritten by: coleman
that last question can't be serious?
Of all people to miss sarcasm...oh the irony!
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Some men see things and say why....
I Dream of things that never were and say Why Not....?
Oh No I'm going to get Shot Alive if he finds out - DA
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Written by: coleman
when this feeling of dissent becomes the majority opinion throughout society, then the f**kers will rue the day!
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Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....
Bob Dylan
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
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