Restrictions limiting UK-originating airline passengers to a single piece of hand luggage are to be relaxed from early next year, although airports must first prove that they can maintain existing security levels.

The one-bag limit was introduced late last summer after UK police foiled an alleged plot to use liquid explosives to sabotage transatlantic flights. It was implemented so that security staff could effectively screen hand luggage for a wider range of potentially dangerous items.

Addressing the Airport Operators Association’s (AOA) annual conference in London on 14 November, UK transport secretary Ruth Kelly said: “We were clear from the beginning, that this was a temporary arrangement - and that the one-bag rule would change once the industry had demonstrated its ability to screen passengers and bags to an acceptable standard, in the light of the new threat.”

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