“Occasionally you would forget though and cause a pile up with a bottle of water.” “You started being more discerning, with no makeup and lots of little containers with little bits of this and that in,” she says. Like the rest of us Schey had got used to the strict rules, with travellers “all part of the same army” carrying their makeup and medicines in a little plastic bag for all to see. I asked for a plastic bag to put things in but they said I didn’t need one. Waiting for her morning flight to Ibiza, Lynne Schey has just breezed through. With all four now upgraded, the airport claims to have “London’s fastest security experience”. Instead security staff cheerfully tell passengers to “leave everything inside your bags”, enabling people to file through at a much faster rate.Ĭity announced the planned changeover last year, beginning with a trial security lane before gradually switching the rest over. The technology also works for electronics, meaning the slow process of depositing belongings on to multiple trays has gone. Now passengers flying out of the Docklands airport can carry liquids and gels in containers of up to 2 litres in their hand baggage after it upgraded its baggage screening system to the latest CT (computed tomography) scanners, which provide a 3D image of the contents of passenger’s bag. The east London hub has from Tuesday officially become the first mainstream UK airport to end the tyranny of tiny toiletries that has held sway since 2006 when the 100ml limit on liquids, pastes and gels in hand baggage was first introduced, after a foiled transatlantic bomb plot to use explosive liquids disguised as soft drinks. Apart from some raised eyebrows at the vat of mouthwash.
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