PHILIPPINE Airlines improved its security at Kai Tak yesterday following a deadly mid-air explosion aboard a 747-200 on Sunday.
The airline's Hong Kong station manager, Adrian Ingles, said its security personnel, hired by Securair Limited, were told early yesterday morning to 'check more carefully' all baggage and passengers.
The measures were implemented after Muslim fundamentalist group Abu Sayyaf, which claimed it put the bomb on the plane, said it would target other Philippine Airlines flights.
One person was killed and 10 others injured in the blast aboard the Tokyo-bound flight from Manila via Cebu.
Mr Ingles said security on all five flights leaving Kai Tak yesterday - four to Manila and one to Cebu - was improved.
'We have told them [Securair staff] to make more stringent checks on all check-in baggage and carry-on baggage,' Mr Ingles said.