>>>> This was transiting from Edinburgh to Istanbul before Xmas, and going
>>>> back after New Year.
>>> Then if you'd bought liquids (water to wine) in the shops at Schipol,
>>> and kept them in the sealed bag, they wouldn't have been taken off
>>> passengers going through the gate.
>> Nobody got anything vaguely liquid through, no matter how it was
>> packaged.
> It's not the packaging- it's the fact it's bought and _sealed_ in the
> Schipol shops.
A sealed bag is packaging. Nobody got one through.
>> Everything from pots of jam to my girlfriend's tube of
>> aloe vera gel went in the bin.
> Maybe you didn't read what I wrote above- you were certainly able to buy
> liquids at the shops in the airport and take them on flights. They were
> heat-sealed by people in the shops.
Maybe you didn't read the word "anything" in what I wrote above.
Nothing like that was accepted.
> I don't quite understand how your girlfriend got to the _gate_ with the
> aloe vera gel- it should have been taken at the first security check.
There *was* no prior security check, we went straight from an arrival
gate to a departure one.
Medications for use in-flight were supposed to be exempt. And the rules
don't say they have to be prescription (OTC aloe vera was more effective
for her skin condition than anything else). It had already been accepted
at the Istanbul security checks (which in other ways were tighter, this
was not long after their cargo terminal had been burned out). The guards
were just being arseholes. And obviously having an absolute ball doing it.
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