maxi77
Active member
Wasn't Stanstead one of the airports where you can only use the bags they seel for an inflated price. In other words it's a scam.
EPIRB on Easyjet?
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Wasn't Stanstead one of the airports where you can only use the bags they seel for an inflated price. In other words it's a scam.
AliM
New member
I had exactly the same experience at Stansted. I had my 100ml bottles in the same plastic bag that has flown with me from Luton, Gatwick, Inverness, Edinburgh and Heathrow, all over Europe and from Stansted a few years ago. "Have you flown from Stansted before?" she asks "yes, lots of times..." I looked back at the queue and dumped all the liquids - luckily nothing worth much... and fumed!
AndrewB
Well-known member
I put one in my checked-in baggage when I flew back from the USA, to get a replacement battery unobtainable there.
Seemingly it had caused concern. My bag had been opened (rather forcibly), and someone had turned the 406 EPIRB on!
Imagine the RNLI trying to chase my yacht at 500kts across the Atlantic.
Seemingly it had caused concern. My bag had been opened (rather forcibly), and someone had turned the 406 EPIRB on!
Imagine the RNLI trying to chase my yacht at 500kts across the Atlantic.
Andy and Lyn
New member
EPIRB OK ! (good idea to take something that proves what it is - box instructions etc.)
Lithium Battery is controlled as a dangerous substance - therefore has to go under Dangerous Goods rules (check with airline staff - (not security staff)).
Lifejackets are generally controlled by the number you are carrying - max of 2 per person.
As a suggestion - go on to the BA website and print off the "rules" and take with you highlighting the ones that apply to your circumstance.
Sailor and Airman
Lithium Battery is controlled as a dangerous substance - therefore has to go under Dangerous Goods rules (check with airline staff - (not security staff)).
Lifejackets are generally controlled by the number you are carrying - max of 2 per person.
As a suggestion - go on to the BA website and print off the "rules" and take with you highlighting the ones that apply to your circumstance.
Sailor and Airman
Andy and Lyn
New member
me again,
go to ba.com and search for "Banned and Restricted Items - this should tell you all you ever need to know about carrying goods on board aircraft.
go to ba.com and search for "Banned and Restricted Items - this should tell you all you ever need to know about carrying goods on board aircraft.
MASH
N/A
Easyjet, Dalaman to Gatwick last month, hand baggage contained one 10Kg cylinder head and four yanmar engine mounts. Security directed me to the police who politely asked to see the "metal" in my bags, did a spectrometer sniff, had a good laugh and whacked a "security checked" sticker on which prevented any further interest in my grossly overweight bags.
Box spanner an "offensive weapon" my arse!
Then last week had an encounter with the mental midgets (love that!) at the aforementioned Toilet Town airport where the woman in front of me rather inadvisedly showed the uniformed gnome an empty 500ml bottle that had contained water - I guess she was goin to top it up to avoid the extortianate prices in the departure lounge and asked if she could take it through. NO! Can't take that! the gnome cried and whipped it off her. I protested it was only an empty bottle as did another passenger but the gnome did not even acknowledge our existance. An empty bottle!!! Moments later I saw two people with rucksacks each with a 1litre aluminium Sigg bottle in the pocket.
Luton airport "security" is an utter unprofessional disgrace, and, imho a commercial conspiracy to force people to unnecessarily buy goods in the lounge at extortionate prices to replace those "forbidden" by "security".
You should see them harassing the aircrew too - just as bad as the passenger side. You can just picture a pilot holding a bottle of water to his own throat and announcing "Take me to Cuba, you *******" can't you...? As if he'd need a "weapon". But the mental midgets can't see that. How pathetic. The automatic thought police on this forum don't allow the use of a word meaning illegit!mate. Not much different from airport scurity mentality, that.
Sadly individual airports are allowed to increase the Home Office (or whatever it calls itself this week) regs as they wish which is how we get idiocy like belts and shoes off, toothpaste and mascara becoming "liquids" yet marzipan/nougat which is indistinguishable from certain very nasty stuff being allowed without any restriction.
This "security" a highly visible public charade that will allow the politicians and airport operators to slope shoulders and claim "We did all we possibly could" if there is ever another attack. The fact that most of their procedures are utterly useless security-wise is by the by.
Dangerous goods though, like Lithium batteries, please be very careful carrying them correctly. They really can be dangerous.
Ah! There! I feel better now!
Box spanner an "offensive weapon" my arse!
Then last week had an encounter with the mental midgets (love that!) at the aforementioned Toilet Town airport where the woman in front of me rather inadvisedly showed the uniformed gnome an empty 500ml bottle that had contained water - I guess she was goin to top it up to avoid the extortianate prices in the departure lounge and asked if she could take it through. NO! Can't take that! the gnome cried and whipped it off her. I protested it was only an empty bottle as did another passenger but the gnome did not even acknowledge our existance. An empty bottle!!! Moments later I saw two people with rucksacks each with a 1litre aluminium Sigg bottle in the pocket.
Luton airport "security" is an utter unprofessional disgrace, and, imho a commercial conspiracy to force people to unnecessarily buy goods in the lounge at extortionate prices to replace those "forbidden" by "security".
You should see them harassing the aircrew too - just as bad as the passenger side. You can just picture a pilot holding a bottle of water to his own throat and announcing "Take me to Cuba, you *******" can't you...? As if he'd need a "weapon". But the mental midgets can't see that. How pathetic. The automatic thought police on this forum don't allow the use of a word meaning illegit!mate. Not much different from airport scurity mentality, that.
Sadly individual airports are allowed to increase the Home Office (or whatever it calls itself this week) regs as they wish which is how we get idiocy like belts and shoes off, toothpaste and mascara becoming "liquids" yet marzipan/nougat which is indistinguishable from certain very nasty stuff being allowed without any restriction.
This "security" a highly visible public charade that will allow the politicians and airport operators to slope shoulders and claim "We did all we possibly could" if there is ever another attack. The fact that most of their procedures are utterly useless security-wise is by the by.
Dangerous goods though, like Lithium batteries, please be very careful carrying them correctly. They really can be dangerous.
Ah! There! I feel better now!
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