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Italian airports allowing liquids over 100 ml: list and rules

List of Italian airports with advanced scanners for liquids in hand luggage. Rules and restrictions for passengers

4 August 2025

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After Assoutenti's 3 August request to Enac (Ente nazionale per l'aviazione civile) to publish on its website an up-to-date list of airports that allow liquids in packs larger than 100 ml to be carried in hand luggage, when asked today by Il Sole 24 Ore lenac reiterated what was announced in a note dated 27 July 2025, i.e. that as of today there are 5 Italian airports equipped to allow liquids in packages larger than 100 ml to be carried in hand luggage: Rome Fiumicino, Milan Linate, Milan Malpensa, Bologna and Turin..

"These are airports," reads the note, "that already have next-generation scanners capable of analysing the contents, including liquids, of hand luggage during security checks.

"In all other national airports, pthus - continues the Enac note - the rules that limit the transport of liquids in the cabin remain in force, i.e. they must be contained in individual containers of a capacity not exceeding 100 millilitres or equivalent, placed in a transparent re-sealable plastic bag of a capacity not exceeding 1 litre, and must be removed from the baggage at the time of security checks..

But in Turin...

At Torino-Caselle, the new rules on carrying liquids in hand luggage, which allow the 100 ml limit to be exceeded,apply exclusively in the Fast track priority passage. Those who do not use the Fast track, even if the airport is equipped with the new scanners, will have to continue to follow the old rules, i.e. carry liquids in containers of 100 ml maximum, contained in a one-litre transparent plastic bag.

Fast Track single pass is purchasable by passengers at a cost of 9 euros.

With several facilitated categories. In fact, the website states that:

- at Turin-Caselle all children under 12 years of age, accompanied by an adult authorised to do so, can access the Fast track service free of charge;

- possession of the 'Torino airport pass' allows free and unlimited passage through the Fast track gate (for card holders plus one accompanying person);

- use of the Fast track is also free of charge for passengers holding airline cards that have stipulated a special agreement with Turin Airport (the Turin airport's invitation is to ask for information at the information channels of the airlines or travel agencies), provided they have a boarding card.

Further information can be obtained from Fast track by calling 011- 5676361/362 or by sending an e-mail to ecommerce@sagat.trn.it,

The European Board's decision

On 25 July 2025 the Ecac (European civil aviation conference), the pan-European organisation that brings together the civil aviation authorities of the 44 member countries, the 27 EU countries plus 17 non-EU countries) at several European airports, has formalised the possibility of carrying liquids in packs larger than 100 ml in hand luggage.

Good Sense

To recapitulate, if a passenger departs - let's limit it to Italy - from one of the five airports mentioned above, he or she benefits from the new rules. But of course, if the destination of the return leg on Italian territory is not equipped for the purpose, on the return journey one will not be able to carry liquids in packages over 100 ml in one's hand luggage.

Important point, explained by an insider: it's the packaging that counts. So, if I leave with a 200 ml package of perfume - or any other liquid, it's an example - and I use more than 50% of it, I cannot expect to get through with the remaining perfume in my hand luggage when I return from an airport that is not yet equipped, because, precisely, it's the packaging that counts for the operators at the scanners..

Bergamo is coming

Il 28 novembre 2025 a Orio al Serio si cambia

Comunicazione presente sul sito del Milan Bergamo Airport

Milan Bergamo Airport

Bergamo Orio al Serio airport is implementing new scanners for liquids in hand luggage, which will make it possible to overcome the current restrictions: "These scanners, thanks to Tac technology and artificial intelligence, will offer a three-dimensional view of objects, making it possible to distinguish the different types of liquids and thus eliminate the need to comply with the 100 ml limit for liquid containers.

The introduction of the novelty will coincide with the inauguration of the new security control area at Milan Bergamo Airport, which will increase the number of stations from 12 to 14.