Special Assistance through airport security

Where medication in liquid form is required to be carried in hand luggage, passengers will need to have a letter from their doctor and their name needs to prescribed on the liquid medicine container.

Passengers who are disabled or with reduced mobility are required to be security searched in accordance with direction from the Department for Transport (DfT). If you are unable to walk or go through the body scanners, please make the security staff aware, who will discuss alternative means of screening.

Security staff are aware, and specially trained, to manage varying disabilities and will conduct any searches as efficiently and sensitively as possible. Any wheelchairs and or electric mobility aids are subject to a visual search, hand search and an e-trace detection test to ensure that prohibited articles are not being carried.

Where it is deemed necessary or on request from the customer, a private search room can be used. These are located at the rear of the central security search area.