Air Australia passengers may soon be allowed to carry nail clippers or metal cutlery in their hand luggage as the government wants to ease restrictions imposed after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Australia is reviewing the list of items prohibited from entering the cabin and considering a clean-up to allow airport security personnel to look for greater risks.
Executive Director, transportation safety office, Koki Wimmer (OTS)
Items allowed in hand luggage include scissors with small blades, small tools or metal tableware with round ends.
Meanwhile, Australian officials are seeking to speed up screening for low-income people. Risk the passengers
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, she said at the Australian Airports Association meeting in Gold Coast: \"The government budget is declining or remains unchanged, and our industry is growing.
We really need to focus our activities on areas with the highest security risks.
The challenge we face is to ensure that the security results are maintained and to deal with situations that may not happen every time we change the security settings.
She said OTS and border agencies will face trial risks.
According to the newspaper, the Australian government will screen passengers next year, but it does not say how the Australian government will determine which passengers are at lower risk.
In addition to removing items from the banned list, Australia plans to expand the use of SmartGate technology and customize the screening requirements of the airport based on its risk profile to speed up the screening process for low-risk individuals.
Stephen Goodwin, president of the Australian Airport Association, said that changes to the list of prohibited items made sense because security personnel faced a difficult task and had to look for so much in hundreds of bags every day
By relaxing the rules, Australia will catch up with many other countries, including the UK, which have removed smaller items from the list of items prohibited from traveling.
At UK airports, for example, metal scissors with blades shorter than about 2 inch are allowed in hand luggage.
In the United States, the aircraft cabin allows the use of metal scissors with spires and blades shorter than 4 inch, but the Transportation Safety Administration says to prevent injuries to inspectors and baggage handlers, they should be sheeted or safely packed.