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I had two liquid containers of 1 and 0.5 liters and thought I'd have to empty both of them before security. The guy there told me there were no restrictions on liquids and I could just bring them.

I've never experienced this in the EU before. As a matter of fact, I recall restrictions on liquids while flying from Munich just a few weeks ago.

Does Frankfurt have some special kind of machine that sniffs for explosives in the liquids or something? How do they get to allow the liquids, unlike other EU airports?

Fiksdal
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Frankfurt airport, like several others in Germany, has "C3 standard Explosive Detection Systems for Cabin Baggage" scanners which currently exempts the airport from needing to enforce the 100ml rule. Unfortunately, the EU is going to reimpose this rule even on airports with these scanners from September 1st 2024.

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AMS, Schiphol Amsterdam has machines where you can/could take full bottles of liquids through but it is announced that this will have to stop to be in step with other EU or Schengen airports.

I guess Frankfurt Airport also has the new machines to check the hand luggage and had not yet implemented the roll back, (if they are going to.)

Willeke
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