>>>> 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.
> Unless you saw someone having such a bag (i.e. sealed Schipol shopping
> bag) rejected, how on earth do you know?
I had about an hour to watch a queue getting processed, close up, and
watching that bin get filled. There were no exceptions.
>>> 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.
> I'm talking about the security check when you first entered an airport-
> presumably not at AMS. They were being lax if they didn't notice it.
There was nowhere they *could* have noticed it.
>> 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).
> You could have taken a 100ml container or less of aloe vera (not hard to
> find) in a sealed bag, and it would have gone through fine.
There was about 50ml in a tube. It could hardly be sealed as she'd
been using it on the flight from Istanbul and we didn't transit any
place that had a sealing machine.
The stuff *would* have been hard to find. She has violent contact
allergies to some common chemicals used as preservatives in skin
medications - Savlon makes her look like she's been burned with a
blowtorch. It's very unlikely that anywhere at Schiphol would have
sold a preparation free of them.
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