Finally, it’s always bizarre how anal some airports are compared to others.
I went through Manchester and had the security banging on about how I’m only allowed one plastic bag of liquids. And yet if I’d supplied my own I could have had any size…
I just emptied out said bag and put it through with all the liquids rolling about in the tray, to get pulled and checked manually and sent on my way. Defeating the whole purpose of trying to be an anal prick.
Meanwhile on the flight back I didn’t take anything out of my bag.
On top of all of this, the whole plot was proven to be non-viable anyway
Another is just how the UK just doesn’t do egress immigration checks. Lots of airports you have to go through passport control before even getting to a gate.. UK are like “nah m8”
Think of all the lost profits for the airside retailers selling bottles of water for £1.50
Good so they can now cut staff to maintain suitably long queues.
But unless the return airports have the technology, what’s the gain?
I take over a bottle of shampoo and then dump it on the way back?
It was easy enough to circumvent this rule with an enema kit anyway
It’s been pointless security theatre from day one, there’s no magic tech that’s _finally_ making it unnecessary, it’s been that way from the start.
Hopefully more of these nonsensical ‘security’ rules will follow
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Finally, it’s always bizarre how anal some airports are compared to others.
I went through Manchester and had the security banging on about how I’m only allowed one plastic bag of liquids. And yet if I’d supplied my own I could have had any size…
I just emptied out said bag and put it through with all the liquids rolling about in the tray, to get pulled and checked manually and sent on my way. Defeating the whole purpose of trying to be an anal prick.
Meanwhile on the flight back I didn’t take anything out of my bag.
On top of all of this, the whole plot was proven to be non-viable anyway
Another is just how the UK just doesn’t do egress immigration checks. Lots of airports you have to go through passport control before even getting to a gate.. UK are like “nah m8”
Think of all the lost profits for the airside retailers selling bottles of water for £1.50
Good so they can now cut staff to maintain suitably long queues.
But unless the return airports have the technology, what’s the gain?
I take over a bottle of shampoo and then dump it on the way back?
It was easy enough to circumvent this rule with an enema kit anyway
It’s been pointless security theatre from day one, there’s no magic tech that’s _finally_ making it unnecessary, it’s been that way from the start.
Hopefully more of these nonsensical ‘security’ rules will follow