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To: nopardons
Continental Airlines - so far, only restricting carry-on luggage on flights FROM the UK:

Travel Notice for UK Departures

Current as of Thu., Aug. 10, 2006 1:30 a.m. Central. Information is updated as it is received.

Continental Airlines, acting on instruction from the UK Government, advises passengers that no items of hand baggage can be carried on board any aircraft departing any UK airport. The UK Government has advised that this instruction will apply to all airlines operating from UK airports.

Passengers may only take through the airport security search point, the following items in a single (ideally transparent) plastic bag:

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Travel documents essential for the journey (eg passports, tickets and visas)
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Pocket sized wallets and pocked sized purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards and identity cards). Handbags are not permitted.
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Prescribed medicines essential for the duration of the flight, except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.
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Spectacles and sunglasses, without cases.
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Contact lenses, without bottles of solution
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For those traveling with an infant: baby food, milk and sanitary items essential for the flight.
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Keys (but no electrical key fobs).
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Every other item must be carried in customer’s checked luggage.

No electrical or battery powered items including laptops, mobile phones, ipods, remote controls etc can be carried in the cabin and must be checked as baggage.

Passengers are advised to check-in as normal but to expect delays at all UK airports.

Continental Airlines regrets any inconvenience caused.

Continental Airlines will not accept for travel any customers not complying with this Government instruction.

http://www.continental.com/web/en-us/content/news/uktravelnotice.aspx?SID=0A2DFB0806714ADA8A40BC852BA27F30
653 posted on 08/10/2006 12:15:18 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: conservative in nyc
Prescribed medicines essential for the duration of the flight, except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.

That's hard core.

667 posted on 08/10/2006 12:18:09 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: conservative in nyc

BTTT


756 posted on 08/10/2006 12:31:49 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: conservative in nyc
No electrical or battery powered items including laptops, mobile phones, ipods, remote controls etc can be carried in the cabin and must be checked as baggage.

If al-Qaeda did not exist, Lightfingers Klepto in the baggage handling departments would have to invent it.

2,111 posted on 08/10/2006 7:52:23 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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