Six regional UK airports have been told to temporarily reintroduce the 100ml liquids security rule by the UK government.
The airports – London City, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Southend and Teesside – have all completed the installation of Next Generation Security Checkpoints (NGSC) scanners, which has allowed them to end the long-running 100ml limit on liquids in passengers’ hand baggage rule.
But all six airports were forced to temporarily reimpose the liquids rule on Sunday (9 June) by the UK’s Department for Transport (DFT).
“This temporary move is to enable further improvements to be made to the new checkpoint systems and will only affect a small number of passengers,” said the DFT in a statement.
“For most passengers,…