Traveling from the UK to USA, ok to take laptop as hand luggage?

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Hi all,

I remember at one point they stopped you taking laptops as part of your hand luggage. Is it now ok to do so?

I'm flying from heathrow to los angeles.
 
Jokester said:
Aye you're only allowed one item of carry on baggage.

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Yeah, just saying that cause a lot of women didn't realise they couldn't take anything else if they took their hangbags.
 
I took my laptop to Barcelona and back last week, they make you take it out and scan it seperately, and as others have said, you cant have another bag, but I just had my laptop in my handluggage bag instead of its usual case.
 
On a recent trip they made a guy fire up his laptop, so make sure your battery is up to the job. They're also very keen on the 6Kg limit on carry on baggage.
 
yermum said:
On a recent trip they made a guy fire up his laptop, so make sure your battery is up to the job. They're also very keen on the 6Kg limit on carry on baggage.
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When I was at the airport in Ibiza it said you can take a bag of any weight as long as you can carry it yourself and don't need help.
I thought they were all the same, but maybe that was just for that airport?
 
yhack said:
When I was at the airport in Ibiza it said you can take a bag of any weight as long as you can carry it yourself and don't need help.
I thought they were all the same, but maybe that was just for that airport?
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We were allowed 10kg in ours. Probably depends on the airline.

Edit: this was to Jersey, which is only a 40 minute flight, that might have something to do with it.
 
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yermum said:
On a recent trip they made a guy fire up his laptop, so make sure your battery is up to the job. They're also very keen on the 6Kg limit on carry on baggage.
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They made me do that with mine too, however they also tested it for traces of explosives :eek:
 
Yeah I got asked to fire up mine aswell after the sec removed and put back the battery and the DVD drive, my bakpack was over 10kgs but they allowed it.
 
book a trip to the US via frankfurt or paris and you can do away with the UKs silly and totally useless restrictive baggage policies.

No other country in Europe has these restrictions and they serve no purpose.
 
HEADRAT said:
Yeah, that's what I understood as well, 1 x bag + laptop.

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BA's restrictions are, as you say 1 bag + 1 laptop, however that only applies for flights to the UK. Flights out of the UK are subject to the DfT imposed security restrictions which limit you to taking one piece of hand luggage through the checkpoint.
 
Do not take jars, plastic or glass. It doesn't matter if they are full or empty.

I saw a 1KG pitcher of Nutella over in sardinia and had to get it to bring back home. My gf was carrying it and in both sardinia and the stopover in stansted she had to take it out for them to see as it set off their machines.

On the way over we had one of those glass dorito dip jars full of teabags and that kept getting stopped too.

Their scanners are bloody good. I forgot to put my tiny little multitool into the main luggage and only realised coming up to security. I buried it in my big carry on bag but they still spotted it. I would probably have been fine going through the metal detector with it tho as I've done it twice before by mistake. I always used to carry it in my pocket so kept forgetting it was there. It had a 1 1/2 inch blade as well but blunt as crap but still.. didn't exactly inspire my confidence in their machines either time ;)
 
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