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Liquid anxiety: Which European airports have scrapped the 100ml limit?

More and more airports have been raising the current limit to 2L, but rollout across security lanes is uneven. Here's the current picture across Europe.

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00:00Which European airports have scrapped the 100 milliliter limit for liquids?
00:05Late 2020
00:1025 brought some genuinely good news for European travelers who like to fly
00:15Light, many airports are finally ditching the controversial 100 milliliter limit
00:20on cabin bag liquids and in an era of minuscule overpriced creams and
00:25shampoos. The rule dates back to 2006 when British police uncovered
00:30an Islamist plot to blow up flights from the UK to the US and Canada
00:35aiming to use liquid bombs hidden inside soft drink bottles. Fast forward
00:40to today, European airports are rolling out new city security scanners
00:45providing high resolution 3D visuals that can detect both solid and liquid explosives
00:50It means that people are now allowed to travel with up to 2 liters
00:55in their carry-on bag. The UK has the highest number of airports equipped with the new
01:00scanners. Heathrow, Europe's easiest airport was the latest to implement the tech
01:05following others like London Gatwick, Birmingham, Belfast and Edinburgh. Italy also
01:10wrote them out at Milan Linate, Bologna, Rome Fiumicino and Milan Malpensa Termini
01:15at 1. Great news also for those flying from places like Dublin, Prague
01:20Terminal 2, Munich, Frankfurt and Malta where the limit has also been raised
01:25to 2 liters check out the full list in our web article
01:30in the UK.
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