Liquids To Be Restricted On Board

Passengers may have to give up liquids, pastes and gels under the government’s new safety rules covering hand luggage, Emirates airline conveyed yesterday.

Any drink, pastes, gels and lotions in containers larger than 100ml will have to be handed over before boarding. This restriction will apply to all fluids as well as aerosol sprays and creams.

The regulations, which are in line with the recommendations from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, are being introduced.

The new hand baggage restrictions apply to passengers boarding in Australia, China, the EU, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Japan, the Maldives, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and the United States.

Some carry-on duty-free items could be confiscated during transit desk security checks in any airport in any of these countries. Because of this restriction, Dubai Duty Free has introduced a service that allows passengers to have goods placed in the aircraft hold at the departure gate.

Airline baggage tags are attached to these items and passengers are able to collect them at their final destination along with their checked baggage.

Liquids, gels, lotions and substances of a similar consistency that passengers wish to carry on to an aircraft must be placed in transparent resealable plastic bag with a capacity of no more than one litre.

These bags must be held separately from hand luggage so that they can be presented for visual inspection. And each passenger may have only one bag.

Fluids in bottles or canisters larger than 100ml will not be accepted – even if the container is only partly filled.

The security measures have been introduced to safeguard passengers from the possibility of explosives being smug gled on board an aircraft in liquid form.

[Via Emirates Today]