What new embuggerance will they come up with to replace this one?
Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks
Heathrow Airport is spending £50m on computed tomography (CT) scanners, which should mean travellers no longer have to remove liquids and laptops from their carry-on bags during security checks. The plan is to have the scanners in place in every UK terminal by 2022. Heathrow has been trialling the technology since 2017 with …
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Thursday 6th June 2019 14:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
if the tech will mean an end to the daft liquids rule – only 100ml per container
no, because they have nothing to do with Heathrow, or any other airport. Which means that the new scanners will be of no use. Until the rules on 100 ml liquid change (they were supposed to by spring last year, or this year, but hey, once you tighten the noose, it appears impossible to make looser again.
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Thursday 6th June 2019 17:53 GMT Paul Eagles
Re: if the tech will mean an end to the daft liquids rule – only 100ml per container
It’d save loads of time for Airport security staff if the 100ml rule was binned. It must take ages for each and every liquid product that’s sold airside to be checked to the same degree that my 50ml bottle of mouthwash is. It’d save me too, those 100ml or less bottles are fucking outrageously priced.
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Friday 7th June 2019 10:31 GMT MachDiamond
Re: if the tech will mean an end to the daft liquids rule – only 100ml per container
It's not 100ml of liquid, it's a container with liquid that has a capacity over 100ml. I had a larger bottle of sunscreen with a few dribbles left in the bottom that I took with me once (cheeky, I know). Was fine on the way out and held up on the return. The letter of the law and not the spirit.
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Tuesday 27th August 2019 17:44 GMT SloppyJesse
Re: if the tech will mean an end to the daft liquids rule – only 100ml per container
"It's not 100ml of liquid, it's a container with liquid that has a capacity over 100ml."
The with is important. I can take an empty 1l bottle and a separate 100ml bottle of Kia-ora and then mix airside at the water fountain.
And inflation is slowly making the "travel" products pointless. many toothpastes are only 100ml now.
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Thursday 6th June 2019 17:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
You probably did see one there as I've had my carry on bag go through the CT scanner at CVG airport. Much easier than taking out laptops and other assorted items. Sadly though I've only been chosen to use it once, all the other (numerous) times I've had to go through the usual hassle of taking everything out in the normal lines. Don't know what's worse, multiple times using normal scanners or multiple times visiting Cincinnati......
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Thursday 6th June 2019 15:40 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
Introduce pink tutus
One common pattern among all terrorists from ISIS through IRA to IRGUN is that none of them have planted bombs while wearing pink tutus.
Using this advanced statistical analysis Heathrow is allowing all passengers in pink tutus to skip the line.
Note that this rule doesn't apply to Desmond Tutu if wearing a tutu because that would be ridiculous
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Thursday 6th June 2019 15:41 GMT macjules
.. travellers no longer have to remove liquids and laptops from their carry-on bags ..
The Pound Shop Hitlers will find other even nastier reasons for you to empty out your laptop bag, confiscate liquids or make you remove various items of clothing, shoes etc.
I had this about 3 weeks ago when I had to dash from LHR T5 underground up the escalators and managed to get through the security gate just within the 30 minute departures lockdown. Various assorted PSH staff made me undergo the full scan, checked every single item in my bag ("Are you sure that this USB stick does not contain liquids or perhaps a hidden blade Sir?"), had laptop repeatedly scanned ("Just in case of hidden explosives Sir") and so on.
The reason? "You looked very stressed Sir. Very common that is with terrorists, we see it all the time". Can't possibly have been because I had just practically sprinted up 4 long escalators and across the terminal?
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Thursday 6th June 2019 16:09 GMT Chris G
Re: .. travellers no longer have to remove liquids and laptops from their carry-on bags ..
Since they see 'very stressed' terrorists all the time I wonder if they would like to release the arrest figures. Or are all or most of these stressed terrorists actually just pissed off travelers trying to get to their flight in time?
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Thursday 6th June 2019 17:52 GMT Paul Eagles
The thing that confuses e is that when Terminal 5 opened at Heathrow you were specifically told to keep laptops and what not in your bags as they went through the scanner. I wonder what technology was in use then?
Beer icon because I’ve had a few and can’t remember when the requirement changed and you had to strip pretty much stark bollock naked in front of a stranger to get on a cramped plane for another shitty business trip.
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Friday 7th June 2019 08:43 GMT macjules
Re: Already at Schiphol...
I have been at Nice airport with a rather good bottle of Rosé when the French security refused to allow me to take the bottle on board. Not only did we get through the whole bottle but we also offered other passengers a drink. Just as I passed through security I could see security staff sitting at their desks helping themselves to everyone else's confiscated wine.
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Friday 7th June 2019 11:26 GMT SkippyBing
Bit of an odd comparison, Heathrow is run by a private company and can do what it wants with its money if legal. The NHS is run by the government which can do what it wants with its money. That a budget of ~£152 billion can't find £59 million for CT scanners is hardly Heathrow's fault.
https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/
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Monday 10th June 2019 12:42 GMT Amentheist
Already the case at Schiphol?
Virtually no queues (but they have the sec checks closer to each gate rather than centralised like I think most UK airports)
They then have the spinny thing you stand in like a mupped that even detected I had an old train ticket in my jeans pocket in me so $diety knows what EM field they blast you with.
Not that any of this matters they watch you and can make the thing beep red if they want I know for a fact they did that in one airport cos I walked to the bog before security while I had no electronics or anything on my person that would trigger the scanner. (Or other cases where I've fiddled with my backpack in the concourse or anything that might look suspicious, possibly even being hungover which admittedly is most times I fly *cough*)
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Friday 14th June 2019 10:16 GMT Geekpride
Interpretation?
I sometimes get to used a CT scanner in my work (I work in the wonderfully named Nuclear Medicine). Mostly we do scans that don't use CT, but there are a few that combine CT images with the Nuclear Medicine ones. Take it from me, knowing what buttons to press to get a CT scan is a lot easier than being able to interpret the images and work out what's going on. I wonder what sort of training the staff will get to interpret the scans and how long they'll allocate to view each one. I'm not convinced either will be adequate to make this anything other than more security theatre.