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Carry-on luggage restrictions


The British Department of Transport posted restrictions on carry-on luggage on all flights leaving any U.K. airports saying:

"With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to all passengers starting their journey at a U.K. airport and to those transferring between flights at a U.K. airport.

"All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing U.K. airports.

"Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items.

-pocket-size wallets and pocket-size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc (not handbags);
-travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets);
-preion medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (eg diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.
-spectacles and sunglasses, without cases.
-contact lens holders, without bottles of solution.
-for those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags).
-female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (eg tampons, pads, towels and wipes).
-tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs
-keys (but no electrical key fobs)

All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be X-ray screened.

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• Pretty soon you'd have to pee before boarding a plane! -wunderlust- ♀ (21 bytes) () 08/10/2006 postreply 23:33:52