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Cardiff International Airport NEW SECURITY MEASURES...

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NEW SECURITY MEASURES...

...APPLIED TODAY AT ALL UK AIRPORTS AS DIRECTED BY THE UK DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

Passengers and Cabin Baggage.

The following arrangements apply to all passengers starting their journey at a UK airport and to those transferring between flights at a UK airport.

1. With immediate effect all cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports

2. Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items. Nothing may be carried in pockets :

•Pocket size wallets and pocket size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc. (not handbags)) ;
•Travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets);
•Prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (e.g. diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.
•Spectacles and sunglasses, without cases.
•Contact lens holders, without bottles of solution
•For those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags).
•Female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (e.g. tampons, pads, towels and wipes).
•Tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs
•Keys (but no electrical key fobs)
3. All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened.

4. Pushchairs and walking aids must be x-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs may pass through the screening point.

5. Flights to the USA

In addition to the above, passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered will be removed from the passenger.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_control/documents/homepage/dft_home_page.hcsp

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