LIQUID LIMITS AT UK AIRPORTS
→ MARK CASWELL
The Department for Transport has granted extensions to some UK airports which have yet to finishing installing new-generation CT scanners, effectively abandoning the June 2024 deadline.
It means that for many travellers, restrictions limiting passengers to carrying liquids no more than 100ml in size – which have been in place since August 2006 when a plot to blow up aircraft on transatlantic flights was discovered – will remain for up to another year.
In December 2022, the DfT announced what it called an end to