Taking Your Own Booze On Board A Flight.

[sandyRoe]

Scroll down in this link to see a story about a UK traveller who became disruptive on a flight after consuming his own booze. How did he get it on board the plane?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/unruly-man-restrained-with-seatbelts-by-passengers-on-plane/ar-AAdpdQu

[mazie]

duty free shop before boarding sandy.

[ummmm]

Bought it departures I assume.

[ummmm]

The last flight I was on I boarded with two bottles of Jameson's in my hand luggage.

[douglas9401]

You can buy it once you're airside, Sandy.

[douglas9401]

I like your style, ummmm. :-)

[sandyRoe]

I'd forgotten about the shops after security.

[ummmm]

Sadly, Douglas, they weren't for me.

[ukbod2015]

So does that mean liquid limits only apply to outgoing flights or where there's a quick profit to be made

[ummmm]

No...the liquid limits are until you've been through security. Once through you can buy liquids then.

[ukbod2015]

So there couldn't possibly be a terrorist working airside

[ummmm]

I would guess they know there are no bomb making liquids in departures.

[mikey4444]

They can't possibly know that there are no bomb making liquids airside, they are just presuming. The alcohol in the duty-free shops comes in from bonded warehouses and its impossible to know that a bottle hasn't been tampered with. Ditto for every other bottled liquid, such as water, orange juice, etc.

Add to that all the 1000's of people working airside, and you have a hole in security that you drive a bus through.

Its a remote possibility I will agree, that a terrorist outrage could happen airside, but airside is far from completely safe.

[ummmm]

Nothing is safe but it's safer that side than the other.

[maggiebee]

Find that strange - I bought perfume in the duty free but still had to put it in a plastic bag and put it through separately as there was a limit in the number of mls you could carry on board? Have the rules changed?

[ummmm]

No...you still have to put everything in a clear bag and anything over a 100mls (I think) will get confiscated. Once you're through the scanner though you can buy liquids in departures.

[maggiebee]

Thanks ummmm, wondered about that.

[ummmm]

It's a pain. Carrying passports and tickets and a clear bag with your liquids (even lipstick is considered a liquid) then you have to take your coat off, cardi off, empty your pockets, take your scarf off and boots...yada....and then I still set the alarm off!!

They say the alarm is random but I'm not convinced. My OH and MIL never set it off. Always me. And I always panic like I'm a criminal!!

[maggiebee]

I've had two replacement hips (metal to metal) so buzz every time I go through the scanner. Worst experience was going into the USA after 9/11 when they were, understandably, jumpy.

[ummmm]

I wouldn't mind that if I knew why I set it off. It's become a joke now, the amount of times I get stopped....for no reason. If I make it through I hi-5 the air :-)

The time I didn't set it off I left a lipstick in my makeup bag so my case was searched.

[Prudie]

I also nearly always set it off - my understanding is it's my underwired bra.