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Holidaymakers flying retired of UK airports person been warned to cheque rules surrounding liquid manus luggage allowances earlier travelling.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says travellers should presume the 100ml bounds remains successful place, unless they've been told different by their airport.
It comes aft Edinburgh and Birmingham airports became the latest to instal caller scanning technology that allows information unit to summation a much elaborate presumption wrong people's manus luggage.
The government initially announced plans to instal the CT scanners successful each UK airports by June 2024, meaning travellers could bring up to 2 litres of liquids successful their manus luggage. However, delays successful installing the exertion has led to antithetic rules being successful spot depending connected which airdrome you alert from.
The 100ml regularisation was introduced successful 2006. (Getty Images)
Speaking connected Times Radio, the Transport Secretary said: "The rollout of this caller technology, the caller scanning technology, has been overseen by the idiosyncratic airports themselves.
"They person antithetic contracts successful place, antithetic providers. We person a concern successful Edinburgh and Birmingham wherever they’ve got the caller exertion successful spot present and truthful are allowing radical who are travelling to instrumentality liquids successful containers up to 2 litres done with them.
"At each different airports the 100ml regularisation stays successful place. From my perspective, if we tin springiness immoderate flexibility to passengers that are travelling from airports wherever the exertion is successful place, I deliberation it would beryllium incorrect to importune that everyone should question with the 100ml."
“You should enactment connected the ground that it is 100ml astatine the infinitesimal unless you person heard from your airdrome otherwise.”
Transport caput @Heidi_Labour says the 100ml liquid regularisation should beryllium made much flexible but for present travellers should cheque successful with their airlines and airports. pic.twitter.com/oUSEATBbVH
When pushed astir what this really means for travellers, Alexander added: "You should enactment connected the ground that it is 100ml astatine the infinitesimal unless you person heard from your airdrome otherwise.
“And I ever counsel radical to cheque successful with their airlines and their airports earlier travelling. And I’m hopeful that we get to a constituent wherever each airports person this caller exertion successful spot soon truthful that everyone tin person that other added flexibility erstwhile they’re travelling."
Current restrictions, which bounds passengers to bringing liquids successful containers nary bigger than 100ml and placing them wrong a wide integrative bag, came into spot backmost successful 2006 aft counterterrorism forces successfully foiled a crippled to stroke up planes from London to the US, utilizing liquid bombs.
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In 2019, the authorities told each UK airports to upgrade to the caller scanners by 2022, but delays meant the deadline was pushed backmost to June 2024.
Many of the bigger airports struggled to conscionable this deadline, owed to structural changes required to accommodate the caller machines, which are bigger and heavier. Last summer, the authorities told each airports to reintroduce the 100ml restrictions, careless of whether they had implemented the caller scanners.
Currently lone Edinburgh Airport and Birmingham Airport person officially scrapped the 100ml restriction.
