I posted this on another forum but think it's worth while putting it on here too for information.
If you journey is made up of more than one connecting flight do you check your luggage through to your final destination or do you pick up and re-check in at each stop?
The reason I ask is when going home from the US many of us fly into a UK hub airport and then take another domestic flight closer to home.
If your luggage is checked through to your final destination then once you have checked it in in the US that's the last you see of it until your last landing.
Now if you buy duty free in a US airport and take it as carry on then when you arrive in the UK, leave immigration / customs and proceed through security before boarding the domestic flight you are banned from taking liquids or gel in containers greater than 100ml so all your duty free that you have brought in from the US will have to be handed over to security and disposed of.
However if your luggage has to be picked up and re checked at each stop then you have the opportunity of placing your carry on duty free from your first flight into your hold luggage before you check it in for the next flight. Not everyone realises that even if their duty free is in a sealed bag it is not permitted as carry on on your onward flight. I've seen many people having their purchases taken from them and not allowed through the second security check.
Hold baggage can have liquids / gels in larger quantities.
(edit was to fix a typo)
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