Bit of a weird one here but go with me. Travelling through AMS this weekend reminded me of a seemingly glaringly obvious security loophole I first thought about a few years ago, which nobody else seems to have noticed. The loophole in question would easily allow someone prepared to make a bit of effort to get any sort of liquid they wanted through security and onto the plane in large volumes with virtually no risk of getting caught. If, as we're constantly told, liquids over 100ml are a threat to planes, this would represent a pretty major security risk.

Obviously I'm not going to post details of what you'd do on a public forum, but I think that if this loophole would work (and unless I am seriously missing something, it would), AMS and other similar airports would need to modify their liquids security arrangements. It seems pointless to have severe restrictions on liquids if they can be easily circumvented.

I'd really like to PM details of this loophole to one of the regulars on this board who knows AMS well in order to confirm this would work... because if it would, I'm sure something should be done about it, although I've got no idea what. But in any case, if it turned out at some point that someone exploited this loophole, and I'd noticed it years before and done nothing, I'd feel pretty awful... so at the risk of looking absolutely daft, I'm posting about it on here.

So, erm, any regulars familiar with AMS want to volunteer to hear me out via PM?