Flights News - Luggage Restrictions Eased

Flights News - Luggage Restrictions Eased

New government rulings on the number of hand luggage we can take on planes will come into consequent from the 7th January 08. This change means that passengers on flights to or from one of 22 Uk airports are permitted to carry on more than one item of hand luggage per person.

The one item rule has been in place since August 2006, amidst many terror threats at Uk airports the government put in place many restrictions on what passengers could carry on to a plane. These restrictions brought about the one item per someone rule but also the kind of item you can safely carry with you, which remains in effect.

This dictated that at one point you were not allowed to bring any liquids onto a flight. mainly because there were fears that terrorists could bring the vital components to assemble a bomb/weapon and assemble it in-flight.

Whilst it managed to eliminate this threat there were other groups that were affected, parents bringing small children on board were not allowed to bring pre-made drinks/food on all flights, this was a shock to parents who would be forced to pour away the bottles they had ready for a long flight and now had no food for junior!

This ruling was relaxed slightly later on with a limit being put in place rather than an outright ban on liquids, the lawful limit for these items is now 100ml of each of gels, pastes, food stuffs etc.

But this change is not being rolled out at all Uk airports, currently 22 Uk airports will be permitting many hand luggage items, but some others, notably, London's Gatwick Airport will not be changing on 7/1/08 due to issues with the group of Transport.

The group of vehicle has surveyed airports to see if they can deal with the added hand luggage whilst maintaining the current added security, without adding to queues. Those that have not been able to meet this requirement, like Gatwick, want further staff and tool and will be delaying the introduction of this new ruling.

The airlines themselves are split over this decision though, British Airways is to permit two items of hand luggage per person, Virgin Atlantic is sticking with the policy it has had since before the August '06 changes; one item for economy and economy Plus passengers, with allowances for laptops and handbags as well but two items of hand luggage for First Class customers.

Cheap Flights operator EasyJet has been reluctant to change their one item policy since there is possible for confusion to the customer as not all airports are supported under this new ruling, EasyJet operates out of 14 Uk airports but only 7 have been stylish by the group of Transport.

The main point that the Baa is enforcing is to check with your flights firm before leaving to ensure you know what is and isn't permitted for your journey. At least with this change it's going to make flying simpler and not having to worry about roughly every aspect of flying, making for, hopefully, a relaxing flight to your holiday destination!

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