Aviation

Setback for Irish passengers as UK Airports to miss deadline to end liquid searches

Heathrow and Gatwick have been the most popular routes from Dublin to the UK, while Stansted is a preferred route for passengers from Kerry Airport

Planes in movement at London Heathrow Airport

Irish passengers travelling to the UK will have to wait longer to see the back of liquid searches at British airports as the move to new scanners has been delayed.

The UK’s biggest airports are balking at a long-awaited change that promises to ease the slog through passenger security queues, as the hubs struggle to meet a June deadline to switch over to next-generation scanners.

London Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted airports — the four ...