When will airports stop doing the damn 100ml liquid restriction???

Probably wasn’t in the clear bag and didn’t fit

This big

How big was your lipstick? 😯

Liquids include gels and pastes.

Also remember the liquid restriction applies to staff working past security. So unable to take a pot of yoghurt with their packed lunch

It’s the sun cream that does it for me….ginger kids…we get on well with the aldi cream but need to take a million of the little bottles to last the two weeks. Always end up paying extortionate holiday prices because we run out.

Travel sized toiletries don’t last long. I shower twice a day (or even three times if very hot) and the shower gel and deodorant lasts about half a week.

Always have a suitcase in the hold and my 350ml shower gel is has about 40% left after a week

Unless you have a proper supermarket near to your accommodation, toiletries are expensive in those beach supermarkets. Like €18 for a bottle of SPF 50 sun tan lotion which costs £6 in Home Bargains

I had understood that the entire threat this policy was created for was bullshit anyway - there are no not completely obvious liquids you can quickly mix to make a practical explosive. Just like that shoe taking off security theatre crap we all suffered.

Plus if you wear boots the new body scanners don't work, yay Gatwick airport good purchase there.

No you’re not.

I lost my favourite lipstick this way. Didn’t occcur to me that a solid lipstick (not tube of lipgloss) was, in fact, a liquid. It was discontinued as well and my last one 😭

Hummus is hilarious. I reckon they took it to stop them stinking out the plane as a snack.

Flying is such sweet sorrow these days - if you make it so. There's nothing we can do, rules are rules! Between the size of overhead and underseat bags, handbaggage liquids and electronics, in or out, shoes on or off, swabs and so on it's a journey in itself.

I'm used to it now and prepare for full checks no matter what the airport. I just put tablet/phone/and a bag with liquids in one big ziplock. Easy to take out if needed. I know it's the size of the liquids that's a problem, but for me it is what it is for now. I buy when I get there, and bring (like others) decanted stuff less than 100mls per container.

I'm usually more worried about delays or cancellations, which has happened to me five times out of eleven flights in the last year or so, not long hauls thank god but still. Now that is a right flipping pain.

I disagree. We are regularly told about terrorist activities they were intercepted before they succeeded. The 100ml rule was an over-reaction at the time, as security are perfectly capable of distinguishing between a genuine snow globe that night contain 130ml liquid and something that poses a potential threat. They now have technology to assist them. It’s time to fulfil the promise to remove the 100ml limit. Maybe replace it with 1 litre or something sensible.

It’s a (very) small price to pay if it makes us safer. I reckon if we had two planes going to the same destination but one had no rules about liquids, taking off shoes, etc, but the other plane did, that the plane with the rules would have more people on.

I don’t get why it’s such a nuisance. Just shove your stuff in your case and keep your carry-on bag for essentials.

Actually, going off on a tangent, what pisses me off far more is people trying to check in huge bulging suitcases as handluggage, dragging them up the plane aisle almost flattening people, then risking injury to others by trying to cram them into the overhead lockers (woman on the flight to Toronto, I’m looking at you!).

Ugh this rule is such a pain, I always check a bag now even when I’m only flying for one night as it’s just easier than faffing around with my toiletries. I usually fly for work purposes so they pay for it, I might think twice if I was paying!

When I flew back from Dublin recently I saw someone having a pot of hummus confiscated at security, that was quite amusing. They were quite insistent that it was not a liquid, the security did not agree.

You can buy empty bottles in B&M, Savers, Home Bargains etc and fill them up with stuff from home.

You can use tooth powder for toothpaste

Also, I got caught out recently going to Paris. My local airport doesn’t require you to use a plastic bag etc ( but of course still has the overall 100ml limit). However, I did have to do it on leaving Paris.

I just have a load of reusable tubs and bottles i decant stiff into. Then wash when finished and back in the draw for next time

You’re not going to hear of the incidents prevented for obvious reasons.

Primark do a set of bottles for £1. Just decant your usual stuff into those. Using the same bottles for multiple trips isn't going to strain the budget.

I travel quite a lot for work, and got some squeezable bottles off Amazon in a clear pouch. So just top them up when I return and pop them back in my cosmetics bag. Not sure it would be enough for a two week family holiday in the sun, but it’s plenty for 5 days, to a week.

Heathrow is already.

I hate it too. It came in after the shoe bomber. I’ve never read any evidence that it’s prevented any terrorist incident ever. I just want to be able to keep a 250ml bottle of my preferred suncream in my handbag and bring a 750ml bottle of wine back for my parents without having to check any luggage in.

It’s not hard necessarily but it can be wasteful . If you use products that amount to more than 100 ml you then buy stuff at your destination and then can’t take it back with you etc.

You can decant into small containers. They don’t do it at Liverpool any more.