Airport Security

Chek Lap Kok security staff receive 4pc pay rise

3 Mar 2013

Sidney Chau Foo-cheong, head of the government-owned Aviation Security Company (Avseco), described the increase as "catch-up pay" that would better reflect the nature of aviation security as...

Logistics sector has to act now to meet new regulations: John Tsang

28 Jan 2013

The EU and the US are planning tighter regulations for checks on incoming cargoes at departing airports.

Tighter US security measures cause little impact on air cargo industry

3 Jan 2013

Tougher security measures introduced last month for some US-bound cargo at Hong Kong International Airport have had little impact on airfreight operations so far, industry experts said.

Egyptian charged with smuggling stun guns onto flight

16 Dec 2012

A 48-year-old man with links to the Egyptian consulate in Hong Kong will appear in court tomorrow accused of smuggling stun guns and tear gas onto a flight leaving Chek Lap Kok Airport.

Immigration laptops stolen at Chek Lap Kok still not recovered

4 Nov 2012

Three laptops stolen from a high-security immigration control area in Chek Lap Kok airport are still missing more than two weeks later.

The Immigration Department laptops were used in...

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Minimum wage boosted turnover of airport security staff

The head of security at the city's airport has blamed the introduction of the minimum wage last year for a staffing crisis that pushed frontline staff turnover at the 3,400-strong company to a...

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US airports replace 'strip search' X-ray scanners

The US government is quietly removing full-body X-ray scanners from seven major airports and replacing them with a machine that produces a cartoon-like outline instead of the naked images that...

AVIATION

Air passenger in body armour arrested after disembarking in LA

A 28-year-old man on a plane from Japan was arrested in Los Angeles after he was found wearing body armour and flame-proof pants, and transporting a small arsenal of weapons, officials said.

AIRPORT SECURITY

Hitachi unveils airport boarding gate that can detect bombs in seconds

Plane passengers could soon be scanned for bombs as they swipe their boarding pass, a Japanese company said, unveiling the world's first explosive-detecting departure gate.

Plane sit-in forces airline to pay up

Passengers furious that their flight was delayed for nearly nine hours managed to triple the compensation offered by the airline by staging a sit-in on the plane.