Say goodbye to the plastic bags! Major UK airport completely scraps 100ml liquid rule in favour of major change

In a immense boost for passengers, travellers flying from Gatwick volition nary longer request to region electrical items oregon enactment their liquids successful integrative bags. 

Airport bosses said travellers tin present permission liquids and items specified arsenic laptops successful their manus luggage portion going done security. 

The airdrome said this was portion of its plans to 'transform' Gatwick's information screening process.

Cyrus Dana, caput of information astatine Gatwick, said: 'More than 95 per cent of passengers already walk done information astatine London Gatwick successful nether 5 minutes. 

'This is simply a affirmative change, with the scanners allowing our passengers to question done the airdrome with much ease. 

'As we proceed to grow, our apical precedence is the information of our passengers and the information of the airport. 

'This cutting-edge exertion ensures a harmless and robust acquisition for our passengers.' 

However, though passengers volition nary longer request to enactment them successful a integrative bag, liquids inactive person to beryllium nether 100ml successful size.

Liquids see products specified arsenic creams, gels, sprays, pastes and aerosols. 

A Gatwick spokesperson besides warned passengers that different airports astir the satellite whitethorn not person adopted the caller technology. 

They said: 'Therefore, the one-litre wide integrative container regularisation and 100ml liquid instrumentality bounds whitethorn inactive use erstwhile returning from different destinations.'  

Gatwick isn't the archetypal UK airdrome to present the caller rules. 

Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Luton, Newcastle, Southend and Teesside already person the caller rules successful place.