An airport has become the UK’s first major aviation hub to allow all passengers to pass through security without removing laptops and liquids from hand luggage. London City has installed new CT scanners which generate more detailed images of what is inside bags.
Departing passengers no longer have to restrict toiletries and liquids to 100ml bottles in clear plastic bags, and can leave laptops, tablets and mobile phones in their hand luggage during security screening. The Government is requiring all major UK airports to use the technology by June 2024.
London City is the UK’s second airport to use the scanners in all its security lanes after Teesside – which has only a handful of flights each day – introduced them last month. Airport security rules over liquids were implemented in 2006 following a foiled terror plot to blow up planes flying from London to the US with homemade liquid bombs.
