Where's the fire? Why is this suddenly "news"? I thought, obviously incorrectly, that those of us operating out of LHR (certainly those of us working through T5 and before that Compass Centre
)had been subject to this ******, including confiscation, for a few years now.
It has caused a lot of grief amongst the Short Haul Community because for lots of good reasons they generally don't check-in baggage.. and those of us Long Haul types who do use a suitcase stick the bigger stuff inside that ( e.g. Greecian 2000, monster tubes of Toothpaste and the odd bottle of Bolly for the room party
) without any probs ( apart from the risk of breaking the Bolly of course
).