Airport security 100ml liquid rule to be scrapped

Some information rules connected liquids and items specified arsenic laptops successful airdrome manus luggage volition beryllium scrapped adjacent year.

The authorities has acceptable a deadline of June 2024 for astir UK airports to instal caller high-tech 3D scanners, that amusement much elaborate images of baggage.

The changes volition spot the 100ml liquid regularisation accrued to 2 litres and mean passengers won't request to region electrical items from bags astatine security.

A erstwhile installation deadline was pushed backmost owed to the pandemic.

Passengers are presently required to region items specified arsenic tablets, laptops and liquids from their manus luggage portion going done information checks astatine airports.

Liquids, specified arsenic prima cream, shampoo oregon toothpaste are required to beryllium 100ml and indispensable beryllium successful a wide integrative bag.

The limits person been successful spot since November 2006 and their instauration marked the extremity of a prohibition connected liquids successful the compartment imposed 3 months earlier, erstwhile British constabulary said they had foiled a crippled to stroke up arsenic galore arsenic 10 planes utilizing explosives hidden successful drinks bottles.

The authorities said its request for airports to upgrade screening instrumentality to the benignant akin to CT scanners utilized successful hospitals, volition mean yet the rules connected electrical items tin beryllium lifted and the liquid bounds tin beryllium extended to 2 litres.

With the authorities being phased successful crossed the state implicit the adjacent 2 years, existent rules volition inactive use astatine airports not utilizing the technology. Passengers are advised to cheque this earlier travelling.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the caller exertion would trim queue times to amended the "passenger experience, and astir importantly detecting imaginable threats".

Christopher Snelling, argumentation manager astatine the Airport Operators Association, which represents UK airports, added the concern was a "great measurement guardant for UK aerial travel, matching the champion successful people astir the world".

"It volition marque the travel done the UK's airports easier and aerial question itself much pleasant," helium added.

The exertion has already been successful usage by US airports, specified arsenic Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago's O'Hare, for a fig of years.

But rider numbers were dented during the tallness of the Covid pandemic with question restrictions successful spot crossed overmuch of the world.