July 27, 2006, LONDON
"Europe your 9-11 is coming"
Posted on 08/10/2006 12:11:21 AM PDT by Jean S
The Transport Department has announced severe restrictions on hand luggage after the terror plot to blow up planes travelling to the US from Britain.
They apply to all passengers starting their journey at a UK airport and to those transferring between flights at a UK airport.
All cabin baggage will be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports.
Passengers may take only the following items through a airport security search point. They must be in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag. Nothing may be carried in pockets:
:: Pocket-size 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 will be hand searched and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened.
Pushchairs and walking aids will be x-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs will be allowed through the screening point.
In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying will be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered will be removed from the passenger.
Airports operator BAA said there are no changes to current hold baggage security measures but significant delays at airports were 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.
A BAA statement said: "We wish to stress that these are precautionary measures. During the next few days airports will be extremely busy, therefore only those intending to fly should come to the airport.
"Passengers are asked to use public transport to get to and from the airport wherever possible.
"Passengers are also asked to be patient while these additional security measures are put in place. Delays are likely and passengers are therefore asked to allow extra time for their journey."
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I guess everyone will be checking their expensive laptops, cameras, etc. from now on. British baggage handlers must be more honest than Americans.
Repot on the TV that business class passangers very reluctant to let their laptops go. This is the other aspect of terrorism - it disrupts ordianry life and causes economic damage. They (the Terrorists) kind of win even if they fail (in their minds).
"I guess everyone will be checking their expensive laptops, cameras, etc. from now on. British baggage handlers must be more honest than Americans."
I think you guess wrong! There will be bargainst galore on ebay.co.uk tommorow I would think!
That's what makes fighting this war on terrorism that much more difficult because a few boatrockers get inconvenienced.
Not only will they have to part with their laptops, they can't even carry a book. I have crossed the Atlantic around 50 times and the return is a looooooong flight. I guess everyone will be watching the movies.
Didn't one of the top UK cops just the other day say that anti-terrorism laws were just descrimination against Muslims?
Fly naked!
how about : SEVERE LIMITS ON MOSLEM passengers ?
Imagine what we would now know about all the 9-11 flights if no passengers had been permitted to have their cell phones on their persons.
2. Lease some fast hovercraft for the run to UK
3. Profit!
Seriously.... I have always had contempt for the left and their characterization of anti-terror activities as "fascist". I have a little less contempt after reading this story.
I like that...SCREW'em!
Excellent idea!
No books or magazines?
Wow... bottoms up...
It's amazing, many airlines are jammed up with disruption.
The Liberals will point the finger at Bush and Rove while citing the Mid Term Elections...
Bush and Rove had nothing to do with the problem of evil, it's alive and well - ask any philosopher.
As for Lemont and the other Pacifists...
Theodore Roosevelt
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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