ademanuele

Whilst having the new scanners at LHR will (hopefully) speed up security checks the big bonus for me is the scrapping of the 100ml liquid rule when travelling with just hand luggage. However, if returning through an airport that still has the old scanners then the liquid rule change will not be of much help.

Is there a database/resource listing which airports have the new scanners (and where the 100ml liquid rule no longer applies)? If not, perhaps one of the administrators could create a thread where forum members can ask the question for specific airports?

corporate-wage-slave

I think it's one of those areas where it will look radically different in under a year so any global database is going to be wrong very quickly. CT scanners are appearing in all sorts of unlikely places like Belgrade, Southend and Shannon, airports in the USA are rushing them through too. Moreover CT scanners and liquid rules are actually separate outside the UK, so some places may introduce CT scanners and still have some restrictions on liquid containers. Realistically we have to work on the existing rules for about another 12 months or so, then things should be quite different.

Incidentally, we all need to hum "Love Me Do" by The Beatles when we use a CT scanner: this song broke The Beatles in the USA and led to EMI having so much cash they didn't know what to do with it, other than face a huge tax bill. They funded projects in all sorts of areas quickly, before the end of the tax year, one such project led to EMI investing in an engineer's hunch as to how CT could be used for scanning objects.

golfmad

ABZ has the new scanners. Used them today. Marvelous. Thanks EMI.

ademanuele

Thanks. Appreciate that things are changing rapidly, maybe we can use this thread to ask the question? Anyone been to DOH and/or HAN recently, does the 100ml rules apply?

golfmad

I was there last week and the old machines were still in place.

alex67500

I tend to hum a fab four song eight days a week, and actually back in USSR was top of that list whenever the BOAC livery appeared at LHR, but I thought the link was quite tenuous.

The first result on Google seems to point to the same conclusion, that although Godfrey Hounsfield and his team were EMI employees (and that cost shouldn't be ignored), EMI contributed less than 15% of the research grant, and the DHSS was the main funding power, ergo British taxpayers. Now, the Beatles would have been significant contributors to that taxpaying effort (thanks to the Rt. Hon members Wilson and Heath, cf the start of Revolver ) so maybe you're right after all!

nilsfr69

They seem to have new scanners near the C gates, at least nothing needs to be taken out from bags anymore.

DaveS

IST has them in some of the fast track lanes. And FWIW they have them in Kigali too!