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New scanners detect prohibited items with greater accuracy, which will make air travel safer and easier for UK passengers.
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.
FCDO travel advice for Guatemala. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Latest FCDO travel advice for South Africa including on entry requirements, safety and security and local laws and customs
Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports - carry-on luggage, checked-in baggage, restricted items and liquids, electronic devices carried from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
A summary of the airport security planning framework set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2009.
Latest FCDO travel advice for British Virgin Islands including on entry requirements, safety and security and local laws and customs.
FCDO travel advice for Argentina. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
The procedures and conditions for establishing public safety zones at the end of airport runways.
FCDO travel advice for Brazil. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for St Kitts and Nevis. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Kenya. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Checklist of things you can do to make air travel quicker and easier.
Regulations for operators providing domestic aviation in the UK, permits for non-EU registered aircraft, and the roles of the regulatory bodies, CAA, DfT and EASA.
How to plan and stay safe if you are travelling alone or independently.
FCDO travel advice for USA. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
New fines of up to £10,000 for international general aviation flights that do not submit advance passenger information online up to two hours before departure.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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