ChatterBank0 min ago
airport worker!!!
Can anyone tell me if every airport has an xray machine to check suitcases for duty free excess.
Partner thinks that every airport has one but i disagree. if they were to xray suitcases as standard then you would probably catch more customs evaders...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well, there's two things here. Firstly airports x-ray luggage for security reasons on departure. There's no duty-free limits when you leave the country. They don't routinely x-ray luggage of incoming flights.
But there are x-ray machine in the customs lines, but they're used to see if luggage has a hidden compartment, not for duty-free fags which can be found by opening the case.
If they routinely x-ray incoming bags then that'd add yet more delay for the poor suffereing passengers (speaking as someone just recovering from arriving from the long unnecessary immigration queues at Amsterdam to exit their country. \EU huh!
Someones bound to say that incoming luggage is x-rayed in the USA, but thats because many US airports are very badly designed and incoming passengers and their luggage have to enter the secure part of the airporst before they can exit, on airports where you don't have to pass through the secure area bags are not x-rayed.