Originally Posted by stevef
Whilst I understand the reasons behind this, why would it not be possible to carry on board items purchased airside AFTER being security-checked? A five-hour flight without any reading material or non-airline bottled refreshment will be quite dire.
I imagine that Duty-free shops will be closed for a while.
Doubt it... after removing all items at security no doubt you can buy it all again in the duty free shops ! profit, profit, profit...... now if they closed the duty free shops, that would show it was real.........