Don’t expect the US to follow suit, but the UK has set a date to flush their liquids-in-carry-on ban:
The ban on carrying liquids in hand luggage at UK airports is to be eased and could be phased out completely by 2013.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond revealed that airports would begin to relax restrictions next April…
Mr Hammond said he sympathised with parents with young children.
He said: ‘I have seen mothers tasting it, and doesn’t it taste foul? The good news is that by 2013 the ban on mush will have ended.’
Mr Hammond said he planned to make the system more flexible. - Daily Mail
Somehow I can’t imagine US officials speaking this way. The EU announced earlier this year that the ban could be lifted in 2013 because of the development of technology to detect explosives in liquids. I’m sure it’s easier to get the liquid detection tech distributed around a small country. Sounds like a rolling phaseout — good news anyway.
(Brad)
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