The new rule on liquids in hand luggage generates confusion and sanctions, while on social media the idea of freezing them to pass them to the controls
It was supposed to be a comfortable revolution, a step forward in the war against the 100 ml limit imposed on liquids in hand luggage. Instead, the novelty launched on 25 July from the European Civil Aviation Conference is becoming A summer nightmare Between three -digit fines, surprise checks and a social trend that risks making more flights lose more than it.
A European rule that is not the same for everyone
Everything is simple on paper: in airports equipped with latest generation scannercapable of identifying the presence of dangerous materials in a few seconds, passengers can carry in hand luggage up to two liters of liquidsexceeding the old limit of 100 ml.
Too bad that reality looks more like a roulette than to a unique regulation.
There are many equipped airports: Milan Malpensa and Linate, Rome Fiumicino, Bologna, Turin, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly, London Heathrow, Gatwick and Southend, Birmingham, Madrid, Palma Di Majorca, Düsseldorf, Colonia, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart. Prague, Bratislava, Sarajevo, Malta.
But technology is not enough: Some airports choose to keep the ban on 100 mlcreating the chaos between departures and transits. Result? Dozens of passengers only discover at the safety passage that the bottle of wine purchased on vacation or the perfume just given can not go up to the cabin.
The hidden costs of a halfway rule
And this is where the salty account starts. If the liquid does not pass, only the option of the STIVE BACK PURCHASED AT THE MOMENTwith prices that have nothing “light”. Here are some examples:
- Ryanair: from 35.99 to 75 euros flight
- Vueling: Between 40 and 75 euros
- Wizzair: 70 euros
- Easyjet: 65 euros
- Ita airways: from 60 euros (national flights) a 70 euros (Europeans), up to 130 euros On intercontinental sections such as Japan, the United States, Brazil, Thailand.
Numbers that transform the most innocent souvenir into one Stangata last minute. Consumer associations openly speak of “regulatory jungle” and are loudly asking that ENAC publishes an official and updated list of airports which allow the new limits, to avoid transforming travelers into unaware victims of dance rules.
The Tiktok trend of freezing: shortcut or own goal?
While chaos explodes at airports, the summer tutorial is staged on Tiktok and Instagram: freeze water, juices and even cocktails To get around the ban, counting that “a solid is not a liquid”. Videos from millions of views promise definitive makeup to bring your favorite bottle or grandmother’s wine on board.
Too bad that the rules speak clearly: even frozen, the liquids are not free from the controls, and those who try Immediate kidnapping, savory fines and delays to the gates which can translate into lost flights. In short, more than a shortcut, a social found by social media that feeds the anarchy of the moment, leaving travelers yet another mockery: No certainty, lightened portfolios and the feeling that a rule born to simplify has only made the most complicated European sky than ever.
