EU DELAYS END OF DUTY-FREE LIQUIDS HAND LUGGAGE BAN
May 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has delayed the planned April 29 end to European Union (EU) airport bans on carrying duty-free liquids bought outside the EU onto connecting flights. International airports in all 27 member states were supposed by then to have sufficient screening technology and procedures to ensure such liquids were safe. But some airports were not ready, so EU transport Commissioner Siim Kallas postponed the end of the ban, even for terminals able to screen. Kallas explained: "A situation at European airports which leads to ...
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