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Jimbo:
Best in the flight bag. They don't seem to care about them in terms of X-Ray. Digital cameras also best in flight bag. It's a while since I was asked to turn anything on.

Waspman:
Never been asked to!

Jimbo:
I have been in the past on business trips to Europe and the USA, but not for a long time.

There is - according to New Scientist - new technology that can identify explosives without all this hassle, but very few (unspecified) airports have it.

It's a crazy world, so this seems to me to be a minor irritation, and we should be glad that potential threats are taken seriously. How efficient it is we can't know, but at least there is a show of trying.

Dupnica:
 Don't want to scare you but ........! there is an article in the Telegraph with the headline "Gatwick Airport baggage chaos,holiday-makers face flying without luggage"  It appears that Swissport ,who are on zero hours contract, are short of staff made worse at the weekend as they don't want to work unsocial hours. Some people who flew out last weekend are still without their luggage.  Gatwick warns that the situation could be worse this coming weekend and could go on for four months. Not only that but people are having to wait up to four hours for baggage after landing back at Gatwick.
 
Might be a good idea to pack a few essential items of clothing in hand luggage.Hope I haven't scared you too much,you can read the whole article on line.

WINKIE:
Read that Dupnica,Monarch have cancelled their contract with Swissport,and are supplying their own handlers,terrible situation  >:(

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