Is baby allowed his own transparent zip lock bag

[Primrose86]

My own toiletries and makeup take up 2 ziploc bags (dh and my allowance) so can nappy spray and aveeno cream go in separate bag for baby? Both below 100 ml.

Yes but depending on the airport you may not even need the bags. Rules are different in different airports right now.

I've often done more than one bag.

I think you'd be fine, especially as you have a baby

And at different terminals at the same airport we learned at Manchester!!!!

I’ve been made to use airport supplied bags too. Small! Can you go without nappy sprays for a few hours? Not vital surely?

Probably better in a babygro for the journey, TBH…

I am not checking in any bags and it's a short trip. We are going there by eurostar and then flying back..

@Primrose86That doesn’t make any difference really. Does baby get luggage allowance or a fluids bag? If not, because they haven’t paid for a seat, then incorporate everything in your bags and cut out extras. How about your pushchair? I’d just have a hold bag. Hardly a novel idea!

How would they know at security if they paid for a seat. Pushchair is free.

Hold bag does cost extra. Hence why only cabin luggage.

From the UK government website https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/liquids:

• you’re limited to one plastic bag per person

A baby is a person. If there was any other limit (e.g., one plastic bag per passenger who has their own seat on the plane) it would say so.

Also remember that baby liquids (formula etc) count separately anyway: https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/baby-food-and-baby-milk

They’d see in the boarding pass which you have to show. I don’t know that it makes a difference but they do know.

Thank you

You don’t show security officers your boarding pass.

OP, I have taken more than my number or bags plenty times before. Just use more than one tray so shoes and jacket and one bag in one tray. Hand bag, other bag in another tray. They don’t know whose stuff is coming through due to the volume. The only way they’d know is if your tray is selected for a hand search.

Absolute nonsense 🤣

Airport security has nothing to do with whether you’ve booked a seat with the airline. Pushchair? What has that got to do with anything? Bizarre way of thinking.

Yes OP, your baby can have their own liquids bag, enjoy your trip. It’s great travelling light when you can

No they don’t 🤣

Lots of airports don't restrict liquids in the same way any more - Bristol and Paris CDG didn't the last time we went. Though I think for Paris it is terminal dependent.

You do at most airports I’ve been through recently (at least a dozen airports). Admittedly, none have been in the UK, so I didn’t realize it was different there.

Ive been asked to throw things away at Stansted before, never flying through that airport again because of that experience. They took exception to the size of bag and then the amount of things in here. Not sure they would have tolerated more than one bag. This was around 18 months ago.

You scan your boarding pass to enter the security area but you do not show your pass to the security staff who are checking your bags. They do not know whether you’ve booked have booked a seat, where you are travelling to, which airline you are flying with.

This is the same as every Italian, Greek, Spanish, Austrian, German etc airport terminal I’ve ever encountered.

Which airports are you travelling through that the security staff who search you and your bags are making you show them your boarding pass?

If you started opening your phone and trying to show them as other passengers are trying to keep moving and get everything in the trays it would be chaos surely?

@soupyspoonintrigued as to what they made you dispose of? I saw a lady kicking off because she had to leave behind her Aldi yoghurt at Stansted. Was that you? “It’s not liquid, it’s yoghurt” she pleaded 🤣

@CountryQueen - I'm talking about the person at the front, where the baskets/trays are. Off the top of my head from recent flights - Geneva, CDG, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Manila, Doha, San Francisco, Munich, Port Moresby, Nairobi, and Hobart. I don't remember for Sydney and now that I think about, I think they didn't in Hong Kong as you had scanned it just before and you were in a gated area between that scan and the security belts.

To be clear, they aren't looking so that they know how many baggies of liquid you can have, but they are checking at/with visibility of, where you are putting your things on the belt (not all airports make you remove liquids, and some don't make you remove anything).

Anyway, it doesn't matter as I agree that (a) many airports don't even worry about the baggie anymore; (b) I've not seen any what are being strict about liquids in the baggie even if you do have to remove them; and (c) the baby should get their own baggie. I was just answering the question of how they could possibly know if the baby were a lap child or not (though this clearly depends on the specific airport).

I have also done this but once they clocked it made me throw out half my items so be careful.

Heathrow T5 is now 2litres
but the return flight was 100ml

little known hack, put your handbag and one plastic bag in one box, then your mini luggage and another plastic bag in another box - I’ve managed to double my limit many times that way

So strange. I’ve flown from both Munich and CDG in the last few months and neither required you to show boarding pass to anyone before the gate. Simply scanned my phone QR code to gain entry via the automated barriers into the security area and loaded bags into the trays.

It’s easy to remember as I pass each family member through using my phone and then put my phone straight into the plastic wallet I use for electronics. I never take my phone out again before I’m in the terminal

Are you showing them a printed boarding pass or something even though there’s no requirement?

They didnt ask for anything specific, they just said there was too much in the bag, they made me choose one of their own bags, where I had brought a slightly bigger sandwich bag. So basically get rid of anything which couldnt fit in their own bag. I was so annoyed. I had really expensive products so in order not to waste money I had to dump the basics like hairspray, deodorant, toothpaste, body lotion that sort of thing.

Never going to that airport again.

Ah, this isn’t unique to Stansted at all. Once the new scanners are in everywhere it won’t matter anyway.