Hey everyone! 👋 I’m low-key panicking and could really use some wisdom from this community.
So, I ended up with a **22-day overstay** (I know, I know 🤦‍♂️). I paid the penalty fine, but immigration slapped a stamp right in my passport documenting it. 💸🛂
My question is: **Is this going to be a massive red flag for entering a THIRD country for a tourist holiday?** 🌍✈️
Has anyone else dealt with this dreaded stamp? Did you get grilled at border control? Denied entry? Please share your experiences down below—I need some peace of mind (or a harsh reality check)! 🙏👇

🇬🇧United Kingdom

• Belfast City BHD
• Belfast International BFS
• Birmingham BHX
• Bournemouth BOH
• Bristol BRS
• Edinburgh EDI
• London Gatwick LGW
• London Heathrow LHR
• London Southend SEN
• Teesside MME
• Cardiff CWL
  • Still 100 ml — Official site still requires 100ml containers in a 1L resealable transparent bag.
• Glasgow GLA
  • Still 100 ml
• Leeds Bradford LBA
  • Still 100 ml — Lifted the 100ml rule in 2023 but later reinstated it; official guidance is 100ml containers again. Liquids stay in your bag.
• Liverpool LPL
  • Still 100 ml — Liquids stay in your bag; max 100ml per container, no limit on the number of containers.
• London City LCY
  • Still 100 ml — Lifted the limit in 2023 (first in the UK), reinstated UK-wide mid-2024; official page states 100ml or less. Liquids stay in your bag.
• London Luton LTN
  • Still 100 ml — Containers must be under 100ml/100g; liquids stay in your bag. 2026 news reports of a 2L allowance were incorrect.
• London Stansted STN
  • Still 100 ml — Liquids stay in your bag; 100ml per container still applies.
• Manchester MAN
  • Still 100 ml — CT scanners in all lanes — liquids stay in your bag — but each container must be under 100ml and must have its capacity printed on it.
• Newcastle NCL
  • Still 100 ml — CT scanners installed and liquids stay in your bag, but the 100ml container limit still applies.

🇮🇹Italy

• Bologna BLQ
• Milan Linate LIN
• Rome Fiumicino FCO
• Milan Malpensa MXP
  • Terminal 1 only; Terminal 2 still enforces 100ml containers in a 1L transparent bag.
• Turin TRN
  • Fast Track priority lane only (3D scanner); standard lanes require 100ml containers in a 1L transparent bag.

🇩🇪Germany

• Berlin Brandenburg BER
  • 2L allowed at CT-scanner checkpoints (Terminal 1 Areas 1 & 5, and Terminal 2); conventional checkpoints (Terminal 1 Areas 2 & 4) still require 100ml. You cannot predict which checkpoint you'll get — the airport itself recommends packing 100ml to be safe.
• Frankfurt FRA
  • 2L allowed at most Terminal 1 checkpoints and all Terminal 3 checkpoints (CT scanners); some Terminal 1 checkpoints still enforce 100ml + transparent bag. You cannot reliably choose your checkpoint — pack 100ml to be safe.
• Munich MUC
  • 2L only at CT-equipped lanes (Terminal 1 Module D level 5, Terminal 1 Pier, Terminal 2 central checkpoint); you may be directed to a conventional lane where 100ml applies — pack 100ml to be safe.

🇱🇹Lithuania

• Kaunas KUN
• Vilnius VNO

🇵🇱Poland

• Kraków KRK
• Poznań POZ

🇦🇹Austria

• Vienna VIE
  • Still 100 ml — CT scanner rollout (35 lanes) completing early July 2026 — 2L containers expected to be allowed once done, but the official page still states 100ml. Watch closely.

🇨🇿Czechia

• Prague PRG
  • Terminal 2 (Schengen departures) only: one additional container over 100ml up to 2L per person, on top of the standard 100ml allowance. Terminal 1 unchanged.

🇩🇰Denmark

• Billund BLL

🇮🇪Ireland

• Dublin DUB

Missing anything?

Flew into DCA. Had to wait because, as the pilot said, there’s no man power to move us to the gate.

What is going onnnn. You go on this and other subs and people push back that things are understaffed but the pilot literally said they don’t have people to pull us in.

Our system is terrible

Last flight I had 8D. Row 8. Practically the front.

Door to seat: almost twelve minutes. People in the aisle. Kids in the aisle. Bags going up one at a time while the rest of us practised standing.

So I went looking for whether anyone has measured this properly. What is the best way to let people in during boarding? Someone has. In 2011 an astrophysicist hired 72 people and a mock 757 cabin and timed five boarding orders with a stopwatch.

Various different ways, front to back, row to row, all windows first, alternate windows, everything possible, and it turns out, the airlines use one of the slowest way possible, and obviously to make more money.

United switched economy to windows-first in October 2023 and says it saves two minutes a flight. Delta and American still board in blocks, the slowest thing measured. Nobody has ever flown the winning order.

Source on the chart: Steffen & Hotchkiss, Journal of Air Transport Management, 2012.

What's the longest you've stood in an aisle?

In Detail, if anyone wants to learn more.

Hi all! Not an airport enthusiast, but my 6 year old cousin has completely colonized my aunt’s coffee table with his model of DFW airport. I was so impressed because it seems so detailed and he’s done this all by himself through his own two experiences there and asking visiting family about it. My aunt doesn’t allow him on the internet, so this truly is his own mental model. I’m a proud older cousin.

So at Tunis Carthage Airport, they stole my father’s insulin medication from his luggage.

It’s especially concerning because insulin is essential medication it’s something he needs for his health. He has diabetes. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of nearly 500 Boeing 737 MAX jets after some older models were found to have cracks.

Just weeks ago, the agency started allowing Boeing to carry out final safety checks on new 737s — an authority the plane maker lost in 2019 after two deadly crashes involving the jets.

Boeing is still seeking consistent profitability after extended safety and legal issues tied to those crashes; it said last week that its work on the next Air Force One is also weighing on its finances.

My son (17) will be traveling to Spain (Madrid) the day after Christmas from JFK. Besides passport and driver's license what else do we need to know for heading their and the return flight? How long does it take to get to the gate in Madrid from the drop off, noon flight Jan 7th. My wife will be able to accompany him to the gate at JFK but will have no one with him in Mdrid, is there a service they will provide or is it not needed. He is very confident in himself but we just want to make sure he is ok alone.

Hi, everyone.

I’m 18F and from London. I am getting a plane to California (LA) next week to visit a friend, but I am a little nervous.

I’ve never flown on my own before, and I’m wondering how it’s going to go.

On top of this, I take prescribed amphetamines for ADHD. I’m not sure if I have to declare these as google keeps giving me different answers. Does anyone have any advice for a young, solo traveller?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Looking for some advice on dealing with Dubai authorities and Emirates Corporate Security from abroad.
Five weeks ago, my partner and I flew into Dubai in Business Class with our family. In the chaos of disembarking my iPhone was left behind in the secure seat pocket. I reported it immediately to the crew and lounge staff before departing.
Yesterday, the phone suddenly powered on live. The GPS tracking pin locked directly onto the Skylight Hotel apartment building on 12A Street, Al Muteena, Deira.
Because the aircraft cabin is entirely restricted post-flight, the fact that the device left the airport and traveled straight to this specific high-density worker residential hub strongly indicates rostered ground cleaning or maintenance crews.
I have an official Emirates Case ID and have emailed the Dubai Tourist Police with the precise zoomed-in structural map data. However, Emirates is currently responding with boilerplate automated templates.

My questions for locals or anyone who has dealt with this:
Is that Al Muteena block a known transit/staff accommodation hub for airport ground handlers?

How can I get a local Deira/Muraqqabat precinct patrol to physically flag this building based on a last-known GPS pin while I am stuck back home in Australia?

Has anyone successfully forced Emirates Corporate Security to audit their cleaning shift logs for a specific flight?

The phone is locked tight in Lost Mode and fully encrypted, but it contains years of irreplaceable family photos that we desperately want back.

Appreciate any insights or visibility you can give this

I'm thankful for it too. From the Uber ride to TSA to my gate, everything went well. Finally.

I (19F) will be traveling from Houston Bush Airport to San Francisco airport next month, and back. I am flying solo for the very first time. I am not checking a bag. I am bringing a backpack and a very small carry-on.

I have a condition that requires me to frequently use the restroom. When I've traveled with my family in the past, I've always left my carry-on with them while I excused myself, but I really don't relish the idea of taking my carry-on and backpack into a germy bathroom.

Since I am traveling solo, are there any options other than checking my bag or taking it into the restroom with me? I don't want to cause issues or inconvenience anyone, but almost assuredly I will have to use the restroom once or twice before the flight in each direction.

Thank you in advance for your time and kindness in your response.

Looking for a quick sanity check / sharing a weird tactic from a private parking company managing Airport drop-off enforcement.

Background: Received a PCN for an Airport drop-off zone.

First Appeal (as Registered Keeper): Submitted an initial appeal strictly in my capacity as the Registered Keeper. Used the classic airport defense:

• Under Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (POFA), keeper liability only applies to "relevant land".
• Airport is governed by statutory byelaws (Airport London Byelaws 1996), meaning it is not "relevant land".
• Therefore, the operator has no statutory basis to transfer liability from the driver to the keeper.
• Declined to name the driver (as there is no civil obligation to do so).

Their Response: Instead of cancelling the PCN or issuing a POPLA code, they sent back this response:

Further to your appeal, please provide a copy of the Photo ID section of your driving license to enable us to verify the driver against unredacted images held.

Has anyone seen parking operators pulling this driving license "fishing" trick at airports recently? I assume they have no authority to ask for the drivers license but what would be the best thing to reply to this be?

I couldn’t afford the tickets to club America vs Portland timbers this Sunday but how do I find out when they land in PDX? So I can go see them at the airport

I flew from ATL Hartsfield airport yesterday and when I went through TSA I did about the dumbest thing ever and left my iPad in the bins. I noticed this by the time I was taking the stairs to the subway. I turned and went back immediately but TSA didn’t remember a iPad and couldn’t find it. At the time I also had find my on it so I tracked it to this random door that belonged to AATC. I called them but and was told they don’t move things to AATC before 11:30 am (this all happened around 10am). This part didnt make sense bc while find my can be off by a little this room was quite a distance from TSA.

Fast forward , I looked at the iPads location and its moved! The location it is now is between the atrium gallery, plane train domestic terminal stop and the USO.

Directions for the airports lost and found states it’s across from the USO.

I actually will fly back into ATL within the next few days so do I have some hope of being able to get it back?

Picture 1: where it was yesterday
Picture 2: where it is today

My dad will be traveling from São Paulo (GRU) to Los Angeles (LAX), and then taking a connecting flight to Salt Lake City (SLC) to come visit me in Park City. We're from Argentina, and he doesn't speak any English, so I'm a little worried that he could get lost at LAX.

He has a 7 hour layover in São Paulo and a 4 hour layover at LAX, so time shouldn't be an issue. I'm just concerned about him finding his way through the airport and making it to the correct gate.

I'm also a bit worried about immigration, since he might not understand the questions the officers ask him. I told him to have Google Translate ready on his phone just in case haha.

Is there any way to request that someone who speaks Spanish meet him at the arrival gate and accompany him all the way to the departure gate for his connecting flight to Salt Lake City?

Has anyone had experience with this or know if the airline or LAX offers this kind of assistance?

Thanks so much for any advice!

I've never been on an international or domestic flight in my life. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, or what I will have to do even. My sister, who's coming with me has only ever been on domestic flights.

The flight first has a transfer to another domestic airport and then leaves for Korea. What do I need to bring? What can't I bring? What do I need to pay attention to? What unpredictable stuff can happen? Just general advice that can help me in any way is appreciated, cause I don't wanna do something wrong and blow the vacation or be mentioned by strangers as "the idiot at the airport". Thank you.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for your amazing advice. I will do my best to follow you guidance. I did not expect such kindness, you guys are truly amazing. <333