Hot water: travellers get used to security ban

PASSENGERS at Cork Airport had to ditch bottles of whiskey, beer and even perfume after they failed to heed the new security bans on liquids on planes.

Staff put up warning posts while check-in desk helpers were deployed to tell departing passengers about the curbs on bottles of 100 millilitres of more.

They were allowed to carry on board containers with less than 100ml of liquid, in clear plastic bags, while everything else had to go in their checked-in bags to be stowed in the plane’s hold.