Passengers are heading into peak summer lacking clarity on what they can and can’t place in their hand luggage, with UK airports continuing to impose different restrictions according to whether – and how – they have upgraded their security equipment.
Most UK airports still impose a 100ml liquid limit in hand luggage (Credit: iStock)
The lack of a uniform landscape looks set to prolong existing confusion about the rules when it comes to clearing security at UK airports; most airports still impose a 100ml liquid limit, with some allowing liquids and electronic items to remain in bags and others not.
Edinburgh airport this week became the first Scottish airport to lift the long-standing 100ml rule, and now operates a two-litre restriction on liquids. Birmingham has also upped its limit to two litres.
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