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Soon the end of liquid restrictions in the cabin
The CT scanners, which the Geneva and Zurich airports are equipped, will make it possible to soften the limit of 100 milliliters in hand luggage.
The CT scanners will allow a detailed three -dimensional analysis of hand luggage, automatically analyzing the substances.
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- European airports will authorize up to two liters of liquids in the cabin from 2025.
- Travelers will have to check the specific rules at each airport during the transition.
- CT scanners will allow a detailed three -dimensional analysis of hand luggage.
- This development marks the end of a restriction imposed since an attack failed in 2006.
A new era is announced for air travelers with the scheduled end of the 100 ml of liquids in the cabin. According to information fromEuronews, relayed by “20 Minutes“, The European Civil Aviation Conference certified the CT scanners last June, thus opening the way to a substantial relaxation of liquid transport rules in hand luggage.
Airports equipped with this technology, such as those of Geneva And from Zurich, will soon be able to allow passengers to transport up to two liters of liquids in the cabin, marking the end of a constraint that has accompanied travelers for almost 20 years.
Delayed implementation
This development was initially planned for 2024, but the hope of travelers was temporarily showered when a commission of the European Union has identified faults in certain CT scanners, thus delaying the implementation of the relaxation.
The restriction limiting each traveler to ten vials of maximum 100 ml, packaged in a transparent plastic bag, had been established in 2006 following an attempt at terrorist attack involving liquid explosives.
CT scanners arrive
The change will not be immediate or uniform across Europe. As a spokesperson for the European Commission, quoted by “20 minutes” explains, the transition will be “gradually, depending on the level of technical equipment of each airport”. Some European airports do not yet have these scanners or do not have the necessary resources to acquire them.
Travelers will therefore have to find out before each departure to avoid disappointments, the rules that can vary from one airport to another during this transition period.
The CT scanner, initially developed for the medical field, uses X -rays to generate highly detailed three -dimensional images. In the airport context, this technology allows security agents to rotate and zoom in on the images, while the device automatically analyzes substances, thus offering an equivalent level of security without current constraints.
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