FRENCH bureaucrats at some airports are taking the ban on liquids in hand baggage to the letter — by banning pens.
Last week in Bergerac airport, passengers were asked to remove Biros and other pens from their hand baggage. Liquids, apart from babies’ bottles, were banned from hand baggage on flights last month after bomb alerts in the UK.
A French Government Tourist Office official said that Bergerac airport was interpreting the ban in the strictest sense, but that the Paris airport authority was allowing pens on board.
A Department for Transport spokesman said: “We set a baseline for airports. If they want to add to that, they can. In the UK, Biros generally are allowed, but ink cartridges are not.”
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