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Old 28th Feb 2007, 12:41
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bigelz1215
 
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Duty Free on connecting flight

Can somebody clarify the official situation.
I recently returned from Venice to Manchester via Gatwick. I bought a bottle in duty free airside in Venice which was sealed in a see through bag and the sales receipt was inside the bag clearly visible. When I got to Gatwick , I had to exit through customs and then go through security again to get back to my connecting flight to Manchester. Of course the no liquids rule suddenly reared its ugly head. The security guard took a bit of persuading but was really nice and let me through with the bottle . Should he have confiscated the bottle ? If so should there not be warnings somewhere to stop people buying duty free if they are going to transfer to an internal flight ? If i had known what was going to happen I would have put the bottle in my hold luggage which went straight through to the Manch flight
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