Im amazed you can actually put stuff from your pockets into a tray which is brought *around* the xray machine. Then the OP seems to say that only cell phones will now be screened. Pen guns have been around forever, you could just have a pen gun in your pocket and move it to the this tray which is never scanned or checked.
Actually they just ask you put your belongings in the basket which would definetely make the radar beep like lighter or cell phone or a heavy keychain etc.
So then the tray is still run through the machine, right? (Not the metal detector you walk thorough but the xray your carry on bags go through)
No, its just a basket lying there, you put your belongings there, go thru x-ray collect your belongings and proceed towards your flight.
In Europe we're not allowed to carry pressurized cans of any sort on the plane. They have to be checked in.
, you could carry that even in your handbag and let it run thru x-ray, nobody would suspect, would not be caught by anything. It would be a nice invention.
So a pen knife or pen gun would be really easy to bring through Are you sure it isn't going through a machine and you just don't know it?
I find it hard to believe is well. I'm almost certain that basket IS in fact passed through some machine to check the contents. It would rediculous not to.
I surely remeber about Bangkok, in India you could take anything anywhere, just need to bribe someone.
If you have good contacts you could do that, Indian Parliament was attacked and bombed in i think 2002, the terrorists just drove in there with all the guns and bombs. Luckily no one was killed, apart from terrorists.
Also, a flight was hijacked by armed terrorists in India. Heres a little of that story: Preliminary investigations suggest that the hijackers had arrived at Kathmandu on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight just hours before re-boarding IC 814. Nepalese inquiry sources earlier said in Kathmandu that four of the five armed hijackers of an Indian plane had arrived in the Nepalese capital on Friday on the PIA flight PK-806 from Karachi, in Pakistan. The four were allowed to board the Indian Airlines Airbus A300, which they later hijacked, without undergoing immigration and security formalities, a source in the Nepalese investigating committee said. Only the name of the fifth passenger along with whom the four travelled was listed in the Indian Airlines manifest.
I agree a lot has changed since then, but even today the biggest problem India is facing today is corruption. If corruption/bribe is wiped out from India by even 50%, India would be seen as a much better nation. Even now you have to bribe someone to be born.
I have a .22 pistol that folds up and looks like a pager. It's great if you have a CWP to carry it. But you aint sneaking it in an airport like this phone thing could be perhaps.
I don't know when you last went to Bangkok Sumitbahl but you won't get a gun through the airport check in...For the last 7 years (this i know) you go through a metal detector and are made to empty your pockets. The contents of your pockets are then put through the scanner - that includes mobile telephones and always has... Some of the security guys are ex US army and they know what they're doing...Leaving security entirely to the Thais - even in their own airport - would be a recipe for disaster... India I couldn't comment on...From what I've heard of the place nothing would surprise me...Malaysia and Singapore you have got to be kidding! The security is ultra-tight. I have been through both a number of times and they're not different to Heathrow. The security guys in Malaysia are pretty intimidating actually...