AllanA wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 1:39 pm
When I fly from Kirkwall to Edinburgh I have a bag full of succulents- Haworthias), which I take into the cabin with me. The person on the Xray does not queery what is in my bag.
Edinburgh's airport xray people also do not queery on my return trip.
Let me know next time you're around, maybe there will be less to take back home!
But back to the airport security checks, they are absolutely not meant to detect a few plants etc., unless flying to a country with very strict border control rules (and even then it's usually the arrival airport that is responsible for it).
DaveW wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:12 am
Looking for something else I was surprised to find this dated January 2023. Have regulations changed since January and was this correct at the time?
"But back to the airport security checks, they are absolutely not meant to detect a few plants etc., unless flying to a country with very strict border control rules (and even then it's usually the arrival airport that is responsible for it).
If you watch the Australian Border Control programmes on TV their x-rays of baggage and postal parcels easily detect organic material. Therefore as you say it depends on whether those border controls are interested in it.
Nottingham Branch BCSS. Joined the then NCSS in 1961, Membership number 11944. Cactus only collection.
Both Kirkwall and Edinburgh are in Scotland and the UK so this is a bit different transporting plants between these two places compared
to moving plants across international borders?
