passengers are currently allowed to take liquids in containers up to 100 millilitres and they all have to be clearly visible. under the new plans, that limit will be extended to two litres and you won t need to remove them from hand luggage at security. however, these changes won t come into effect untiljune 202a, to give airports time to upgrade their screening equipment. let s speak to the travel journalist and writer simon calder who s at gatwick airport. good morning, simon, we have all got used to do this over the last decade or so, used to do this over the last decade orso, do used to do this over the last decade or so, do you think this is a good plan to revert what it was before hand? ~ , . . ~ plan to revert what it was before hand? ~ , , . ~ ., . , ., hand? well, yes. if i talk to any of the passengers. hand? well, yes. if i talk to any of the passengers, and hand? well, yes. if i talk to any of the passengers, and there s i hand? well, yes. if i talk to any of the pass
the uk government has confirmed that restrictions on liquids and laptops in hand luggage will be eased at most uk airports from 2024. more advanced scanners will be installed at security checkpoints, giving staff a clearer picture of a bag s contents. passengers are currently allowed to take liquids in containers up to 100 millilitres and they all have to be clearly visible. under the new plans, that limit will be extended to two litres and you won t need to remove them from hand luggage at security. however, these changes won t come into effect untiljune 2024, to give airports time to upgrade their screening equipment. a short time ago we heard from the travel writer simon calder who s at gatwick airport. he explained why the new type of airport scanner means liquids and laptops can now stay in carry on luggage. they are molecular scanners,
described a terrifying scene as this man began threatening people with a knife on board. when he went to go to the bathroom, the passenger in the window seat looked at me and said, hey, like, he has a knife, and he told me that he was threatening to stab people. we need to go say something. reporter: this is a pretty big lapse in security here, victor and alisyn. the tsa says the individual security officers involved in this will be pulled from the line and put into remedial training. regionally, they re doing more training on the equipment used, the screening equipment at these airports, and nationwide the tsa is issuing a bulletin to all of its workers to heighten their vigilance, especially as we go into the thanksgiving travel rush only a few days away now, victor and alisyn. they take my hair conditioner, but they let him keep the box cutters in his carryon? wow. we don t know what s in your
it to the highest level and admits to failures of its own procedures. they failed to review the footage where a man not identified showdown up with two book bags, but them through the screening equipment. tsa workers inspected the bags this. is where it gets interesting. one of the workers found one of the box cutters, and instead of throwing it away, gave it back to a man. the tsa also admitted the second box cutter was not discovered. i want you to listen to passengers who within on the flight when this man started making threats. when he went to go to the bathroom, the passenger in the window seat like at me. he said, we e need to go say
forward? reporter: victor, the big question here is how these box cutters got through tsa in the first place and made it onto this frontier airlines flight. tsa tells me it s reviewing this at the highest levels of the agency, but what s so interesting here is tsa says it failed on some of its own procedures. the tsa says it is now reviewing the security footage from the cincinnati northern kentucky international airport at the security checkpoint there. the tsa says this unidentified man came to the security checkpoint with two book bags, put them through the screening equipment, but it did not catch these two box cutters. then, and this is where it gets interesting, victor and alisyn. the man had his screened physically by workers at the airport. they were able to find one of the box cutters, but returned the box cutter to this man. they re typically supposed to throw it out. the tsa also admits the second box cutter simply was not discovered. we want you to listen now to the passe