T5 security plastic bag
Aug 27, 2022, 12:56 am
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Yes they do, but you are best to use a freezer bag with a firm press seal, and do it at home rather than hold people up in the queue. Some places want "their" bag to be used, but T5 isn't in this group. 20cm by 20 cm maximum, no more than 10 items, maximum 100ml per item. Some exceptions apply for medicines and baby food.
Aug 27, 2022, 1:01 am
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Yes they do, but you are best to use a freezer bag with a firm press seal, and do it at home rather than hold people up in the queue. Some places want "their" bag to be used, but T5 isn't in this group. 20cm by 20 cm maximum, no more than 10 items, maximum 100ml per item. Some exceptions apply for medicines and baby food.
Aug 27, 2022, 1:54 am
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The last few times I've been through the place where the bags are normally available to pick up has been empty. Although maybe they have changed it so that you now have to ask for one?
Edit: That's just First Wing security so the others may differ.
Edit: That's just First Wing security so the others may differ.
Aug 27, 2022, 2:40 am
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An oddity I've noticed recently is going through the relative quiet of the first wing (and the VS equivalent) they are quite strict about 1 bag per passenger, closed bag etc. Going through the cattle market of normal security they're not.
Aug 27, 2022, 3:19 am
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I would say that's an anecdote from a recent set of experiences, but I could give other anecdotes in the reverse direction. Staff vary in approach, and the one area where this may be understood relates to workload priorities: if main security is busy then staff have to get people to understand the restrictions when they are often quite frazzled. Liquids will be just one thing of many. Whereas the much lower workload in TFW means that staff can devote more time to making sure these retrictions are being followed. But overall I would not say there is a massive difference on the liquid bag processing, it's the same staff, same rule book.
Aug 27, 2022, 3:50 am
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Yes I have seen a security officer once in TFW spend five minutes fishing out liquids from several bags and bagging them up for scanning for a family that doesn’t ever seem to have travelled at all in the last 15 years and were completely unprepared. I doubt that would happen in normal security.
Aug 27, 2022, 4:06 am
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T5 F Wing has been out of bags the last couple of times I’ve been through. I find the LHR bags a bit thin / flimsy personally, I normally pick up the Fraport branded ones which feel much sturdier.
I also normally find T5 security very helpful. Sadly, I am making a formal complaint about Heathrow security for the first time ever this morning, after the lady manning F Wing security scratched my leather holdall aggressively throwing it onto its side in the tray for no reason, with a requirement that the security supervisor subsequently told me was made up. Not good.
I also normally find T5 security very helpful. Sadly, I am making a formal complaint about Heathrow security for the first time ever this morning, after the lady manning F Wing security scratched my leather holdall aggressively throwing it onto its side in the tray for no reason, with a requirement that the security supervisor subsequently told me was made up. Not good.
Aug 27, 2022, 4:34 am
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LGW "Premium Gatwick" ... my backpack pulled for secondary. Screener solemnly removes disposable cigarette lighter containing about 5 ml of liquefied gas, places it in a ziplock bag and solemnly returns it to me.
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
Aug 27, 2022, 7:04 am
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We can wish for the day that bagging liquids is a thing of the past but I don’t think that will ever happen. As mentioned in another thread a while ago by someone, airport requirements are slow to change as it requires global agreement in most cases.
Aug 27, 2022, 7:09 am
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LGW "Premium Gatwick" ... my backpack pulled for secondary. Screener solemnly removes disposable cigarette lighter containing about 5 ml of liquefied gas, places it in a ziplock bag and solemnly returns it to me.
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
Aug 27, 2022, 9:22 am
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LGW "Premium Gatwick" ... my backpack pulled for secondary. Screener solemnly removes disposable cigarette lighter containing about 5 ml of liquefied gas, places it in a ziplock bag and solemnly returns it to me.
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
Any Caribbean airport ... disposable lighters always confiscated! Never been able to find the rule published anywhere!
In China, other hand... seems to be a national sport to free you from all the lighters
And it reminded me another odd one in STN, also a while ago. One screener in one security lane was shouting at people to take the containers out of plastic bags and lay them on the tray for easier inspection.
Aug 27, 2022, 11:58 am
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Aug 27, 2022, 12:06 pm
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Not BA related, but I remember flying from Manchester right after the liquid in bag rule came in. They were charging £1 per bag to everyone.
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