Paying for security plastic bags...
I wonder if this is now the case in many places? I recently operated out of MME / Teeside and one of my colleagues asked for a new plastic bag for their liquids at the xray machine. They were told that they would have to go back and buy one from a vending machine however their jacket had already gone through the machine so after some confusion they were reunited with jacket and forced to buy a plastic bag for 50p.
This caused both delay and disbelief that flight crew have to put up with this. The topic of conversation on the way out to the aircraft was quite animated indeed. I don't know how the passengers put up with this either. Needless to say the crew member will be claiming it back from the company but I post this as a warning to other flight crew to go prepared with spare bags procured from 'free' airports to save hassle at MME.