Security on flights to USA stepped up

[ExXB]

I read somewhere that the new LHR terminal 2 isn't fit for the new at security measures. Anyone been through there to n. America, who can comment.

[Laarbruch72]

I don't think a public forum is the sort of place to analyse specifics around this, but suffice to say that many terminals worldwide were built with no plan for gate screening. You adapt and make it work though, indeed you have to or you don't operate.

[ExXB]

OK, it'll take it to the Telegraph, where I read it first. Nobody reads that, do they?

[Laarbruch72]

No, the paper printed an unconfirmed story, and now you're asking people to publicly verify or comment further, so not the same thing. I'm merely suggesting that discussion on the effectiveness or otherwise of specific measures at specific airports is not to be encouraged anywhere, whether in a newspaper article or not. And your reply was tantamount to kids justifying their thoughtless behaviour by crying "but the bigger boy did it first". It still doesn't mean it's a good idea.

[radeng]

I couldn't decide from the published info if medical devices were exempt. Things such as insulin pumps and neuro-stimulators, which tend to work automatically and have no manual controls. In any case, not sure how you could prove the insulin pump was working without special test gear, and you would not wish to give the user an extra dose of insulin only to have him go into a glycaemic reaction 800 miles out.......

Although I always liked the 'switch off all electronic devices for take off and landing'. Can't always be done - pacemakers, for example, and turning off a hearing aid would be very dangerous. Obviously not thought about by those who wrote the briefing script.....

[Laarbruch72]

No device is necessarily exempt, but it's accepted that some medical devices clearly have to be examined and screened differently.

Your comment about electrical items on take off and landing is probably best dealt with on an SEP thread, it's a bit outside the scope of this discussion.

[paulc]

ExXB,

passed through T2 at LHR to Chicago on 20th July - my camera bag was checked / swabbed but I was not asked to turn any of the electrics on (phone / tablet etc)