From the article:
The latest move was welcomed by budget airline Ryanair.
"We welcome any move to remove the ineffective measures currently in place and to restore security to the safe levels that apply to all inbound flights arriving in the UK," a spokesman said.
"To do anything less would hand the extremists a victory."
Ryanair announced last month it was seeking compensation of about £3million from the government over airport delays resulting from the increased anti-terror measures.
I have a lot of respect for Ryanair for taking a public stand against this insanity, especially as US airlines voice their "wholehearted support" for the water ban.
Makes me glad/proud that I actually flew a segment on Ryanair this summer (though I doubt they made much money off my $25 SNN-BVA ticket).
According to BBC transport correspondent Tom Symonds the government has been trying to find ways to reduce the impact of the security alert at airports and has carried out a series of tests.
I hope that these "tests" included actually trying to create the supposed binary liquid explosives under realistic in-flight conditions. I also hope they did tests to observe the size of fire/explosion that would be created by detonating a travel-sized-toiletry container of the various compounds. I suspect the difficulties of mixing and the anticlimactic whimper which would come from detonating a travel-sized-toiletry container (OK, maybe you might kill the bad guy or one person, but blowing a plane out of the sky or even blowing a hole in the aircraft seems unlikely) would speak loudly to the stupidity of the toiletry ban. I wonder if (this or any) government will admit to their tests and the results.
If the UK returns to sanity and the USA TSA does not, it will at least provide us one more piece of ammunition that TSA is out of control and paranoid beyond reason.