i flew 2 weeks ago, no different to last year… none of the usual are permitted in your handluggage (sharps, flamables, aerosols, knives, guns, drinks, lighters)

my dad flew last week, said it was bloody busy, he flew from gatwick, but found a really unpacked checkin desk whitch is inforce when the airport gets packed, id look for that!

I flew from Stansted a few weeks ago all the usual but I had to dump most of me toiletries and I had to put my rucksack through “special luggage” as it had straps which get caught in the machinery, the same sack, the same machinery that always used to take it!?!

see if before you leave your house you can do online check-in, speeds up the whole thing loads cuts out like big hour long queues

also as hard as it may be, hold in your urge to shout BOMB at the top of your lungs, whilst on the plane…

hope you enjoy your holiday

iuve been there so many times, and its soooooo hard not to:cry: 😥

I remember reading on a website about how a few years ago (before the terrorism scares) some chap who was into computer games was playing a flight sim on his laptop, and sitting quite near the front of the plane. his speakers were turned up quite loud.

He let his attention slip and let the simulator plane’s altitude drop, and everyone ended up hearing

“WHOOP! WHOOP! PULL UP!”
“WHOOP! WHOOP! PULL UP!”

coming from what they thought was the cockpit

[this is part of an electronic alarm system found on all aircraft and is a Very Bad Thing to hear coming out of loudspeakers on an aircraft you are flying on!]

caused a bit of a short-term panic..

The cockpit staff actually saw the humour in this and just told him to use headphones, and after the flight they had a chat with him about which software it was and showed him round the real aircraft.

Of course you’d probably get arrested and sued these days..

didnt notice much difference apart from manchester aiport scanned passport images and had a database of that exact image, and liquids were limited.

oh, n outside the airport terminal, a nice sign sayin “in accordance to the terrorism act 2002 greater manchester police will be doing random searches outside this terminal of both person and vehicle”

but i have the odd suspicion they werent just searchin for terrorist related things

3 people in a one man tent. Ouch!

Can barely fit 3 people in a 3 person tent.

A couple of years ago an old schoolmate of mine was checking in at an airport and when he was asked if he had anything on him he shouldn’t have he said, “nah, well just this grenade in my shoe…” The airport staff didn’t see the funny side; he was immediately arrested, fined and banned from the airport. And he missed his holiday. It made BBC national news.

A few years back a couple of friends went to Florida for a holiday (not sure why).
When they go to the US customs desk one of them joked to the customs guy that the other sold drugs.
He hit the alarm. There was no question about whether it was a joke, no search, no criminal record check.
My mate was arrested and deported within 30 minutes with a big red ‘Refused Entry’ stamp in his passport. Not useful if you want to go abroad anywhere in the future.

american airport immigrations staff are famous for their completely absence sense of humour :noway: [amazing when you consider how much americans bleat when subjected to the same level of immigration checks others are forced to go throught to visit the US][personally I dont visit there anymore as I object to being treated as a criminal just because I wanted to visit a friend out there.]