Completely rubbish. There are some airports would like to believe that. But the vast majority you don't have any restrictions.

Don't let "security" know that, or they'll suspect you of attempting to gain control of your airplane.

Whilst being patted down at Stansted,positioning with my Crew,these Richard Heads emptied the contents of my Flight Bag onto the counter and told me it all had to be placed onto the tray and be Xrayed,yet apart from paperwork folder it was entirely self explanatory,apart from my Head Phones that could have gone bang!!Then on examining and opening my First Officer's case a "Rubber Foam Chicken" exploded out of his case into the air,to be applauded by Passengers in the queue and general laughter of the Crew and other members of their own staff.He was duly dispatched to their Duty Manager and a report against him was made to our Ops Director and Chief Pilot.Happily they saw the funny side,as the plonker concerned did NOT have to open his case,but just X Ray it,so what he got was as a direct result of his actions only,and not specifically the First Officer's in putting such Foam Chicken in his case.How that was explained I dont know,but we got special treatment until posted down to Gatwick.The same FO then got a Gorilla photo lightly stuck on to his ID and as the back was swiped each time,the front did not get a look in,so he ran with the gorilla photo for some weeks,until a senior member of staff advised him to remove it!!!!Such was Security only a few years back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whilst the rules in the UK are ludicrous and implemented by some occasionally unpleasant people - nothing, nothing, compares to the gross invasion of privacy in having my hold baggage broken into by the TSA when I am not present. I fly the plane! I don't need a suitcase bomb! I sometimes feel like leaving a dirty protest in there...

MonarchOrBust,

Operating Crew are exempt from the no liquid ban in all EASA situated airports.
This comes literally from our head of Security who is also an auditor for Airport security all over EASA land.

He also said though that in the uk, some local airport authorities and screeners think they know better and INVENT their own rules, deliberately making the lifes of crew difficult.

They know very well that they are using non standard restricions but alas, as crew the inly thing we can do is to remain polite, to explain the exemption rule and to write a report.

Is there a written reference to this?

Security Nazis
 

Here's the future of airport 'security:' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM5LyotHUhs

And please remember folks: "we can't let the terrorists win.." so therefore we have to let the knee-jerk Nazis win! :ugh:

p.s. no need to get excited about the "naked" in the video. It's all neatly censored just the way they like it, and so that all the 'good family values' and Patriot Act loving folks can sleep well at night. :yuk:

Not censored at all in Domodedovo and the ones inspecting your image are all female....so gentlemen, make sure you look your " best" for the camera :}

I nearly had a large can of deodorant confiscated once going through the cargo rvp even though I was crew because the can was over 10ml.

I only kept it when the screeners asked me if my case was going in the hold or the cabin and I said "hold".

A colleague accidentally said "cabin" and has his confiscated!

The fact that this was a cargo a/c and we could put our cases where I liked didn't seem to matter!