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An odd thing happened on my way back to London last weekend, when I got to the security line at Milan’s Malpensa airport.
I was going through the usual palaver of fishing out my laptop and liquids for screening when an official barked: “No!”
The airport now had high-tech scanning machines, she said, so everything could stay in my bag.
I blinked at her. It has been 17 years since a foiled terrorist plot to smuggle liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks ushered in the infuriating 100ml liquid limit on hand luggage. This was my first glimpse of a return to some form of normality that is slowly emerging as airports across the world install scanners like the one in Milan.
It’s not the only pleasing flying surprise I’ve had this year.
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