No doubt you will have seen the item in the newspaper last week about new rules for liquids carried in hand luggage. New scanning equipment can now detect minute traces of explosives in liquids.
My first thought was "great"!! but after reflection I'm not sure if there are many benefits.
The main one is that women will find it easier to carry a decent range of cosmetics and toiletries - no more adding them to a partner's bag!
If you can now carry liquids of more than 100ml I assume these will be scanned by the new equipment. Instead of speeding up check-in as claimed, I would have thought that it would do the opposite. With no more than 10 containers of less than 100ml in my bag, security was a doddle - no hold ups. But now I will need to have my duty free perfume or whisky scanned? Hmmmm...
The new rules will be in force in Australia in 2012 and in 2013 in Europe.
It will be interesting to see how it goes - fewer passengers fuming over their duty free purchases being confiscated maybe, but more scanning of bigger containers, which also takes time.
Also bigger containers means more weight!! Not ideal when travelling with only cabin baggage.
For me, I think I'll stick with the old system of smaller containers.
Light travelling!
Marie
