Hand Sanitizer
Jul 30, 2015, 8:23 am
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Hand Sanitizer
I have just flown over 10 sectors, across Ireland, UK, USA, Germany, Spain, and their respective Airport Security procedures.
I have a 100ml hand sanitizer gel bottle that i keep in one of my side pockets in my bag. I never take it out and put it through my liquids bag. Interestingly, my bag has never been pulled out, and the hand sanitizer has never aroused suspicion.
Can the screeners not see the hand sanitizer or is there another explanation?
Just curious? Anyone else got a similar experience?
I have a 100ml hand sanitizer gel bottle that i keep in one of my side pockets in my bag. I never take it out and put it through my liquids bag. Interestingly, my bag has never been pulled out, and the hand sanitizer has never aroused suspicion.
Can the screeners not see the hand sanitizer or is there another explanation?
Just curious? Anyone else got a similar experience?
Jul 30, 2015, 10:56 am
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They are probably not worried about it. In FRA my bag got pulled because of small 2oz bottle of eye glass cleaner solution. First time in many, many flights. I have hand sanitizer in another pocket. I never worry about it.
Jul 30, 2015, 11:24 am
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They don't care. I often have moisturizer and other small liquid sundries in my purse and I've never removed them or been asked to remove them.
Jul 31, 2015, 7:22 am
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I do the same in the US, but be careful about it in the UK. The security staff at LHR have a nasty reputation for, when then find liquids in somebody's bag, sending them off for a secondary inspection which involves completely unpacking every bag the pax is carrying.
Jul 31, 2015, 10:46 am
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I've never had that issue at LHR (or any other European airport out of which I've flown) for international departures to the US, and I generally have a small hotel tube of lotion in my laptop bag. I do pull out my toiletry bag, however.
Aug 3, 2015, 11:17 am
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At LHR T4 security I was behind a couple who didn't have all of their liquids in baggies, nor would what the woman had fit. After some delay, they moved to the side to determine what to throw away and what to put in each baggie. They claimed to be unaware of the rule.....and this was the premium class FastTrack line.
Aug 6, 2015, 11:42 am
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Aug 6, 2015, 11:54 am
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LHR is a nightmare. We got pulled out once, and could not figure out why. The officer tore our bags apart, and finally pulled a moisturizer out of my 311 bag, claiming it was too big. It was, in fact, smaller than the allowable size, and after the officer called over a supervisor (we never said a word; she just kept looking at it, turning it over, etc.), the supervisor took one look, pointed at the mL amount clearly marked on the bottle, put it back in the 311 bag, and apologized to us. Of course, the whole ordeal took 20 minutes. All because the initial officer though the bottle "looked" too big. Grrr.