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The Daily PollTHE BRITISH GOVERNMENT has announced that rules around taking liquids and laptops through airport security in the UK will be eased from June 2024.
Passengers at most major UK airports will be able to carry liquids in containers holding up to two litres in what will be the biggest relaxation of aviation security regulations in decades. The current limit is 100ml.
The daa has said it is continuing to implement the EU-wide aviation security regulation in relation to the 100ml limit at Cork and Dublin airports.
However, it said that it is trialling new technology which, when installed, will end the need to remove laptops and liquids from cabin baggage at security.
“When installed, the new technology at Dublin and Cork airports will end the need to remove laptops and liquids from cabin baggage and will enhance the overall customer experience for passengers.”
So, today we want to know… Should the rules around taking liquids through Irish airports be relaxed?
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Stopped from bringing nail scissors through security. Confiscated. I was devo. Shop next door to the security check sold nail scissors. Bought a new one… or did I just buy my old one? Who knows.
Don’t have a problem with the liquid rules it’s the power tripping and often abusive baggage checking staff that need to be overhauled
@Peter J McCarthy: They can be narky alright but it’s an unforgiving role. You spend your entire shift repeating ad nausuem the same things about liquids, laptops, belts etc which are also described well in advance with pictures, and a scary amount of people still can’t grasp the simplest of requests. It frustrates and delays everyone at a time when people are already at increased travel related stress levels.
@Peter J McCarthy: I thought the staff in Dublin are usually very decent. They have a job to do obviously, but they’re a lot more decent than in some countries.
@Peter J McCarthy: well if the users of airport security actually complied and had everything ready plus we’re actually nice to the staff it would be a lot quicker and they wouldn’t talk back.
We’ve seen this year how awful a job it is so much so that the airports have struggled to hire enough fully trained staff as the turnover is so high.
So maybe just be nice to them and do your part!
@The Thinker: I agree. Manchester airport is the absolute worst. Pure hell on earth with the rudest staff.
@Peter J McCarthy: have you ever been through Manchester Airport, they are the world’s worst
@Peter J McCarthy: I was flying from Dublin Airport to the UK for a funeral in September, was through security when I realised I’d never left our key out for the pet sitter. Ran back to them in a state and they took my key and held it there for my dad to collect later that day. I’ll never speak badly of them for that, sound bunch.
@Tony Stanley-Jaggard: to be fair the DAA need to pay more than they do and then perhaps they wouldn’t find it as hard to hire and retain staff.
@Chris Linehan: thing is that you have no where to get ready the only place to open your stuff is when you are actually at the security then you have to lose your jacket, belt, shoes, watch, sweater, pocket change… no wonder people get confused, also it will get worse when some airports have different rules.
@Jas: Belt, pocket change and watch go in your jacket pocket or bag as your queing. You don’t need to start the whole process once you get your little tray.
This rule never made sense to me. There are many other rules that make no sense to me that could also be abandoned. I have to declare my lipstick but can buy as much as I want before I get on the plane.
@2thFairy: Made perfect sense, the liquid ban was introduced around the world after a terrorist plot was foiled in August 2006, in which a group planned to detonate liquid explosives on board multiple flights. Passenger liquids are rather different to sealed bottles purchased in duty free
@Stephen Kearon: all they have to do is get you to drink from the bottle, who is going to drink an explosive substance.
@Stephen Kearon: and you think all the bottles, scissors, make-up, tweezers, alcohol, etc available to buy in duty free has all been vetted and deemed safe.
@Colette Byrne: I drank a pint of Guinness once that was fairly explosive.
@2thFairy: yes they have
@Andy O’B: no, they really haven’t. And a pair of scissors is a pair of scissors. If they were deemed a real threat they would not sell them in duty free.
@2thFairy: exactly, all you have to do is buy a bottle, then smash it the toilets and you will have a letal weapon
@Colette Byrne: someone who is later planning on blowing up a plane with them on it I’d imagine ..
@2thFairy: Yes.
@2thFairy: scissors, tweezers, nearly all products have to be approved to sell airside. They need to meet certain criteria like can’t be longer than 6cm etc. it’s not feasible for security staff to inspect each scissors to ensure it meets this criteria so they confiscate them all.
@Colette Byrne: Brilliant.
@Colette Byrne: I am afraid you’re logic is a bit faulty. The simplest answer is that someone who is going to blow them themselves up on a plane won’t mind drinking a bit of explosive liquid. Besides, my, admittedly sketchy knowledge on the subject, tells me it is usually two or more liquids that have to be mixed that combine to make it explosive.
@Colette Byrne: Shampoo and toothpaste are not on my drinkable list. There are less palatable possibilities.
@Ian James Burgess: I know some airports abroad where they ship your duty-free separately, outside the passenger cabin, maybe for various reasons, but people there don’t carry their duty-free on board.
Why are the DAA taking so long?? Shannon as well as many UK airports already have the new technology in place, but it seems like it will not become normal practice in Dublin until well into next year if not 2024. A very poor show.
@Dick Barrett: Maybe it’s because of the size of Dublin compared to Shannon. The DAA were talking about it last week on the radio. All of the scanners in each terminal need to be updated before they can bring it in. You can’t have people queuing for security & some need to take out liquids & bring less than 100ml & others don’t because of which scanner they’d get. It would cause chaos. And not that many UK airports have it in place yet. The UK is only saying it’ll be fully in place by the end of 2024 – in the article just down from this one actually. In fact the DAA appear to be moving faster than some in that it’s already in 2 airports here with the others rolling out over the course of the next year. And the machines ordered which is ahead of the game of other European countries.
@Susan Walsh: DAA not responsible for Shannon
I fly through Dublin airport weekly for work and relentlessly get stuck behind people at the top of the security line searching for liquids at the bottom of their bags! I’d love, either to choke these idiots, or for the liquid rule to end. I’m 50/50.
People should move aside and wave others on if they’re not prepared for security. What bugs me are the overdressed people who seem to be on a first date and wearing all their jewellery through a scanner. Maybe it’s their first flight, but let everyone else past while you’re figuring it out.
@Tricia G ☘️: as airline crew who was directly caught up in the events that led to this liquids ban all those years ago, I assure you it is not “theatre”! No more so than the regulations introduced after 9/11 caused all those deaths.
@Tony Stanley-Jaggard: It’s not just passengers it’s aimed at making feel safer.
Is the rule for liquids not to ensure airport shops made more money as it came at the same time as duty free ended?
@Claude Saulnier: Are you a Trump supporter?
@Claude Saulnier: so the US, Australia and other countries around the world brought in the liquids rule because duty free could no longer be purchased when traveling within the EU?
@Make Up Selfies: “This account doesn’t exist”
What does Trump have to do with the previous comment?
Are you one of these hyperventilating little snowflakes who deleted your Twitter account because of that dastardly villain, Elon Musk?
That would explain your TDS.
@Make Up Selfies: who is he?
@Joanne McBride: no idea, I was asking a question.
Absolutely. You can’t take in a certain volume but can buy that volume at extortionate prices in the duty free.
The winners in all this are the terrorist. They don’t need to hijack or blow up planes, they only need to get caught with a new method. Then every airport heightens security which causes delays, people having to remove clothing/shoes, etc etc. Airport security are always playing catch up. So when we go to the airport and there are hour long queues to get through security just remember, the terrorist have won.
I remember a funny cartoon suggesting that everyone could defeat the plots of religious extremists overnight if we all agreed to walk naked through airports.
Already in use at Shannon. Why no mention?
It’s theatre. Designed to make us feel safe enough to board planes.
As long as we are safe I don’t care either way.
I refused to take my shoes off in Belfast International. Security man was lucky he didn’t get a good clip that day to be honest.
@Aidy McBride: aren’t you the big lad! And what would have happened if you did give him a clip? You wouldn’t have travelled and would have been charged excessively with disturbance at an airport.
Big lad with your big balls aren’t ya?
@Aidy McBride: Where you you Bury all your dead?, internet tough guy.
@Aidy McBride: You’d have been brought down like a sack of potatoes by airport security if you’d raised a hand or voice to the search staff. The rules are there so we don’t get blown out of the sky while on our trips. It’s not all about you. It’s about public safety. A little more patience and a little less petulant princess gets us all to our seats on the plane a little more quickly.
@Aidy McBride: big man….I think everyone at the airport was glad u didn’t take off your shoes!
@Damien Leen: say what you want lads, nobody in this world is gonna make me take my shoes off in public.
Even pilots have to abide & bin their water going through security. If a pilot wants to damage an aircraft I doubt a/he will be relying on a 150ml bottle of water
@Susie Sue: incorrect
The rules were introduced because the U.S. refused entry into their airspace for any flight whose airport security didn’t follow their guidelines. Has this been relaxed or are the UK daring the U.S. not to ban them? Because they will.
@Steven Schulz: What the article says implied that security standards are satisfied by the new tech. Scanning is quicker than searching queues of people, after all.
This rule was an unnecessary overreaction. No one has ever managed to smuggle a liquid bomb onto a plane, either before or since the regulations were introduced.
The existing systems detected the attempt to bring on explosives.
Bad bad idea. Does us no harm as is.
Even pilots have to abide & bin their water going through security. If a pilot wants to damage an aircraft I doubt a/he will be relying on a 150ml bottle of water
Spanish airports during the pandemic….classic hell. Sooo up their backends. And angry. Better off arriving in a boat from Morocco.
There should be a big mallet to hit anyone with liquids who slows done the security process
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