Airport security

It really doesn't matter what happened to it. It was no longer yours. You didn't follow the rules. You were not allowed to travel with it, so it was removed, it was that or forfeit your flight and bring your oil home safely. I would rather it was used than binned if it were me.

Yes, the rules are different at different airports.. And it's easy to find out which roles apply to them airport you are flying from.

Some, that haven't yet upgraded their security equipment, need the bottles to be under 100ml.

Some now can allow bottles up to 2l. These are currently, I believe, in the minority.

If you aren't sure then either check, or keep your bottles under 100ml.

There's only one person responsible for the issue that you faced, and it's not the woman that took the bottle from you.

Jersey briefly relaxed to the 2 litre rule, and now they’ve tightened up again. If you check the rules for all the airports you’re travelling through and stick to the minimum then you can’t go far wrong.

I suspect they were having trouble at Manchester with the 2l thing tbh.

They were having a lot of bags pulled and they were still having to manually check last time I went through. This is why they defaulted back to the 100ml. Tbh if makes more sense until all other airports bring in 2l rules anyway tbh.

Why not just own the mistake and stop whinging? You'd come across far better, IMO.

This is why you research.

It takes two minutes to google and check the rules for your airports.

YABU. The rules very clearly state the container must be under 100ml (or under 2L if you’re flying from an airport with the new scanners). You can’t take a water bottle through even if it is pretty much empty.

You can. All the travel bottles I have say 100ml clearly on them. I’ve had them for years, as I thought that was rule back then too (and if it wasn’t I wasn’t arguing with security that it was 100ml without being able to easily prove that).

Because half empty is subjective. Was it really 75ml or could it have been two thirds or three fifths. Was it 99.5ml or 100.05ml.

Rules make these things clear!

I’ve only travelled abroad once in the just 20 years. Even I knew it was the container size, not the contents. Sorry op, this one’s on you. You’re just mad that you didn’t read the rules properly.

Because some airports have a new security system that's getting rolled out

It's fairly clear that you don't know the rules.

Sorry, this is on you.

Annoying but the rules have been in place for Years. I’m sure she didn’t steal your oil
I mean would you want someone’s second hand cosmetics/ skincare

YABU - it was your own fault

Security have no idea what might be in a half used bottle so I can't see them looking to taking it home.

You might get new scanners on the way out only to find that coming home the airport at your holiday destination doesn’t.

Oh and yes it WAS the same terminal.

It's bonkers.

I do know last time when I went through with a 2litre bottle (which was obvious and in a side pocket so they can't have missed it) they were having a huge number of bag rejections.

You CAN'T do this at Manchester Airport!!!!

Last year I took a full 2 litre bottle through which was allowed through according to their rules. If I hadn't checked the rules again I would have been caught out.

They have the new scanners.

So yeah CHECK WHAT THE AIRPORT RULES SAY ON THE DAY YOU FLY BECAUSE THEY KEEP CHANGING.

AIBU - the rule is the liquid amount; not the amount the bloody bottle says

It depends on the airport entirely.

I read the rules for Manchester airport this week. It says the following:

You can pack liquids in your hand luggage, as long as each liquid is under 100ml. These can be left in your hand luggage during the Security search. Because of this liquid limit, we recommend packing them in your hold luggage where possible.
Please note: Liquids in containers larger than 100ml cannot go through Security even if the container is only part full. There are some exemptions.

If you wish to bring your own containers to hold 100ml or less, the container must have printed on it the measurement that the container can hold. Travel sets of containers that do not have measurements on them will not be allowed through security. Handwritten measurements or stickers are also not acceptable.

So it is explicit.

I had an argument with a friend about this yesterday who said her son went through security with more recently. I showed her and said nope it's changed again since and yes I had previously been through in the last twelve months and they were allowing more but they'd changed the rules again in April.

So my advice is to check the airport website for the latest as it doesn't seem to be changing regularly.

But as you can see from above and screenshot, Manchester's rules explicitly state it must be in a bottle that holds no more than 100ml AND it needs to have the size printed on it (so you can't self dispense, which is a massive step backwards imho).

You really think she took it because she wanted a manky half used bottle of oil? Grim

May I just do a special shout out to security at Gatwick who displayed one hell of sense of humour dealing with me and DP. It was like airport security meets the Chuckle Brothers last time we went through. We actually did all end up laughing. And then DP's trousers fell down.

You can take 2L bottles of water and all sorts in lots of airports now. However those with the old rules still have always been 100ml max containers

No it’s not. It’s some airports where they have the new scanners