New Zealand leads Australia
Anyone who has recently travelled through North America and most of Europe, as has The Mole, will be aware of the much more stringent security checks which have been in place for some time in those parts of the world, but not in Australia and New Zealand.
Yesterday at an awareness campaign launch in Wellington, New Zealand’s Transport Safety Minister Harry Duynhoven said New Zealand was adopting the more stringent international rules because they would apply to most international flights.
In place from March 31 the new rules will ban passengers taking on board any containers of liquid larger than 100ml, including water bottles, on international flights, with travellers only be able to carry containers of 100ml or less of liquids, gels and aerosols in a resealable plastic bag no bigger than a litre in volume, similar to a resealable sandwich bag.
Medicines, baby food and essential dietary supplies will be exempt but will also be subject to additional security checks.
Australia will also be introduce these new rules and checks very shortly, with chaos resulting in the UK when the rules were introduced in August, as an immediate follow up to the terror attack on an aircraft in the UK, which was said to involve liquid explosives disguised as water bottles.
Travellers who buy duty-free liquids and who pass through a country with such a policy will very likely have their purchase taken by security staff, but other non liquid duty-free purchases would not be affected.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation has recommended the measures be introduced and NZ Aviation Security Service CEO Mark Everitt said New Zealand had to follow international trends, with authorities hiring more than 160 extra security staff to minimise disruption and an additional cost of $NZ4.50 being added ticket prices.
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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