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The New Handbagage Laws
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What do you think of them?
Sensible precautions or just over kill, i.e. things like you must now carry your belongings in a clear plastic bag, glasses can be carried but not in a case?
You can take babies milk but gotta drink it infront of an airport offical?
Laptop must now be checked into the hold (wider how many would survive that trip or how manye xtra bags would go missing)
I think it's overkill .. most people were probabaly more likely to have gotten killed ontheir way to the airport then on the plane by a terrorist.
I think more sniffer dogs at airports, investment in high tech machinery, scanners, etc is the way to go.
Sensible precautions or just over kill, i.e. things like you must now carry your belongings in a clear plastic bag, glasses can be carried but not in a case?
You can take babies milk but gotta drink it infront of an airport offical?
Laptop must now be checked into the hold (wider how many would survive that trip or how manye xtra bags would go missing)
I think it's overkill .. most people were probabaly more likely to have gotten killed ontheir way to the airport then on the plane by a terrorist.
I think more sniffer dogs at airports, investment in high tech machinery, scanners, etc is the way to go.
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I'm more afraid about a laptop being broken if sent with the regular baggage - it just gets thrown around by the people who move it around.
Out of interest, can you take books, newspapers etc on board or is even that kind of thing restricted? I find flights hideously tedious even if they're short-haul and I can bring all manner of shiny, entertaining things on with me.
Cheers :thumb:
I suppose that's not quite so bad, but still one hell of an inconvenience unless they're upping the hold baggage allowance to take into account that you can't pack extra pairs of undercrackers in your hand luggage (always fun when your bag gets searched ).
Well it's no real difference to buying a magazine from Tesco and taking it with you, is there? Same price. Doesn't bother me, anyway.
When I went to New York they searched my luggage... I don't think it would have been possible for me to take any more kinky underwear/body chocolate/random sex stuff in my bag. I was only 17 on my first holiday with my first proper boyfriend... I nearly died of embarrassment in the middle of Manchester Airport. :thumb:
You nympho, I love it! Sod's law though, most definitely...
They do check shoes, at one airport ages ago they were making my cousin's flight remove all their shoes and sticking them in the xray machines.
And laptops in the hold - I've only ever done that once ...when my uncle in Canada gave me a free 486 laptop and I'd already gotten my own Pentium 3 laptop with me.
My own more valuable laptop I took myself in hand luggage and the old 486 went in the hold ... but laptops of that age were built like tanks and even had it's own internal power supply, today the materials are thinner and screens more delicate and going into some foreign countries I won't be surprised if the entire suitcases with laptops go missing and as far as I remember airlines only have to reimburse passengers for lost luggage based on the weight of the bag not the actual value of the contents.
I bet the no liquid rule is good for airlines profits, means you have to buy their drinks onboard if it's not included in the ticket price. And of course they'll probabaly stop you taking onboad anything to eat like chocolate bars, etc.
cant even listen to music on the plane, normal people are being punished for what terrorists could potentially do =\
Oh Yeah I didn't think of that, no MP3 players - without music of my own flights seems to go on forever, and the music on the planes is just crap.
This whole thing is just crazy, airport bring in Billions ever year so hey should simply fork out for the extra security if they're that worried rather then take us back 100 years in time and tell us not to bring anything with us.
The whole point of terrorism is if you're made to change your daily lives then they've already won, we never had any of these measure when the IRA were putting bombs here there and everywhere over 20 years, so why now?
Black Market will be filled with nice electronics now!
If I was travelling abroad, I would FedEx all my valuables I would normally have in my hand luggage to my destination, I would not put them in the cargo hold!!
The government is obviously using the situation to scaremonger, but that ain't nothing new.
When i flew home on thursday i had a massive bag and 2 bottles of drink with me and nothing was said, they were only scanned once and that was it.
bit worrying
You lot fucking terrify me. Little sheeple meekly heading to the slaughter you are.
haha i've given up posting on here, and on other forums also, seriously i've had people give as their response "i'd give give over more basic rights so the government can keep us safe"
it's really nightmareish, people really have been trained over the pat 10 years into passing all their responsibilities and rights over to those who only care about power
anyway apparently theyre allowing mp3 players as of tommorow morning, which is very good news
Well there is a solution .. pump your own on the plane ...
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To the person who mentioned banning shoes: there are actually rules about those. If you're wearing footwear with a thick sole you have to remove them & put them through the X-ray machine. And yeah, they don't overlook them - I always fly in my platforms (they take up too much space in my suitcase), & I get asked to remove them every single time.
The really stupid thing is that for all the insanely draconian restrictions, I'll bet MacGuyver could still blow up the plane with a passport & some milk. :yes: