Why do airlines throwaway single containers of liquids containing 100ml or more of it?
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This is not going to be a thing much longer.
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Security theater. None of it actually works, It doesn’t make you any safer. But makes you think the airline is really secure and makes you feel safer.
Doesn’t answer the question, but when the decision was announced to limit liquids in carry-ons, I was out of town on a business trip. The group I was with had just left a meeting and walked to our rental car to head out to the airport, when someone from the office ran out to tell us they’d just heard the announcement and it was taking effect immediately. Here we are opening up our suitcases in the parking lot, pulling out bottles of shampoo and such to FedEx them back home to ourselves, in a panic not to miss our flight. It was chaos, and we were cursing the whole time.
It’s not the airlines, it’s the government, and they do it because fear mongers convinced people that someone might bring two bottles of chemicals onto an airplane, mix them, and create plastic explosives to blow up the plane.
I think noone argues that 100ml is safe, and 101ml is dangerous.
As stated in other comments, explosives can be transported more easy in liquids. That’s why there is some limit to how much liquid you can take with you. Luckily that limit is not 0, that would make travel without check in luggage virtually impossible.
The limit of 100 ml is a reasonable value, and the good thing is that it is standard everywhere. Otherwise security would take forever, imagine all the Karen’s -“last time I took this much and it was okay”, “I brought this bottle on the flight to here and it was okay”…
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You have to consider that most of the airline security is performative art meant to make you feel safe enough to fly. Time and again TSA and other security services fail to accurately screen out threats when tested. The 100ml bottles are readily available and typically sufficient for travel, and they fit nicely into a quart size baggie. If scientists were involved in the decision it would have been a more complex rule. I’m sure their recommendations were ultimately not followed.
It is my understanding that this restriction is being repealed in 2024 due to the proliferation of full body scanners.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/airports-set-scrap-100ml-rule-184940565.html
Feel good propaganda reasons. 100ml is arbitrary. Illusion of safety through TSA post 9/11 because scared people accept anything big daddy government tells them.
it took a comedian, i forget who, to point out to me that they take all these potentially toxic liquid bottle and just toss them into the same garbage can.
its definitely theater.
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