The first UK airport with 100% ‘don’t unpack’ security scanners is …. Teesside

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• Jon says:

  13 Jan13 January 10:49

  The quoted article with the increase in scan times is talking about the switch from metal detectors to scanners for people not bags. Luggage is normally fast, but the full body scanners are definitely slower

  • lcylocal says:

    13 Jan13 January 20:43

    It may make sense to have more body scanners per luggage scanner, maybe three scanners per two lanes?

• ADS says:

  13 Jan13 January 11:56

  A few months ago departing from Heathrow (T2 i think) I was told NOT to take anything out of my hand luggage for the X-ray machine.

  Was very confusing!

  • John says:

    13 Jan13 January 15:24

    Same, at Christmas time. I presumed they had installed a 3D scanner as the entire belt arrangement looked very new. The scanner appeared to be quite large too.

• JimmyJimmy says:

  13 Jan13 January 13:08

  I am correct in thinking although still a 100ml per item limited there is no longer a restriction in number of items (number that can fit in the plastic bag).
  Outward journey obviously, not too bad for Mrs J coming home as she will finish/ leave a lot of bottles of stuff in hotels (sun creams etc)!
  Ta
  J

• Matty says:

  13 Jan13 January 13:45

  Ever tried travelling with just about nothing? A few years ago, I was popping up to Edinburgh to see my mate for a few beers. All I had was my wallet and boarding pass – no watch, no phone, no passport, no hand luggage. I had a change of clothes at his place, so no need to carry anything.

  Of course I pinged as I went through the arch. Shoes off and re-screened. Security wanted to swab my luggage and thought it deeply suspicious when they saw my near empty tray. Had to take a seat and a police officer appeared up a few minutes later for a chat…

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    13 Jan13 January 14:03

    It was the fact you were travelling to Scotland without an umbrella. Deeply suspicious.

  • lcylocal says:

    13 Jan13 January 14:24

    Surprised this was seen as unusual. People at my organisation regularly fly up to Scotland for a meeting and back the same day. And vice versa. I would prefer the train but flying does often work better for day trips. Particularly through London City.

    • AJA says:

      13 Jan13 January 16:36

      I’ve just realised that your profile name is referring to LCY ie the airport. For some reason my brain always reads the initial letter in your name as a capital “I” not a capital L so you’re an icy local to me 🙂

      • Peter K says:

        13 Jan13 January 17:33

        I always viewed it as Icy as well!

        • Nick says:

          13 Jan13 January 17:52

          People going for a work day trip are likely to have a laptop, notebook, etc. The poster above was suspicious because he didn’t have anything, not because it was a day trip.

        • lcylocal says:

          13 Jan13 January 20:36

          Ha. Yes it’s the airport. Having moved I’m not actually that close these days, LGW is probably equally convenient although further away. But I always enjoy a trip through City.

• Bob says:

  13 Jan13 January 14:09

  Heatrow is testing these as well. In some lanes, they tell people to not take out anything, and body xray scanners are different. Similar to big ones but works faster and more open, not a closed cabinet.
  Not to takeout anything from the luggage makes everything faster, it was great. But i’ve seen that many more people’s luggage went to detailed check section and they put them twice to the machine, which makes it worse for those people.

• James Harper says:

  13 Jan13 January 17:30

  Great news about Teesside, only one problem I can see about it, there’s no where to fly to from the backwater.

  • Nick says:

    13 Jan13 January 17:58

    There are very few parts of the world that can’t be reached from MME. One of their anchor carriers is KLM, with massive connectivity at AMS. In this respect it’s actually better than the much bigger LPL, which doesn’t really have network carriers any more, other than a token a-few-a-week LH flights to FRA.

  • lumma says:

    13 Jan13 January 19:08

    You can only fly to places beginning with A. Alicante, Amsterdam and Aberdeen

• DaveJ says:

  13 Jan13 January 17:54

  Good to see some levelling up. Mike Hunt will be pleased

  • Mike Hunt says:

    13 Jan13 January 19:08

    Oh I am

    • DaveJ says:

      13 Jan13 January 20:48

      Nice one Mike. Glad we’ve finally completed levelling up

      • Mike Hunt says:

        14 Jan14 January 11:33

        It’s still a work in progress and will build up towards the next general election

• JtR says:

  13 Jan13 January 18:10

  The limit is funny because this ‘next gen’ technology has been in use for years in other countries like Ireland with no liquid limit.

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