All passengers at Scotland’s busiest airport should be going through new 3D scanners by Christmas, as chiefs said the technology was enabling them to clear security faster than anywhere else. Confirmation of the timeline came as Edinburgh Airport said it had cut complaints about late-arriving bags by speeding up their delivery to passengers despite handling the same number as last year. Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar said three new scanners were in operation, which would increase to four or five by Christmas.
The first was introduced in April . He told the airport’s consultative committee , which scrutinises its operations, the technology was also “performing ahead of expectations [in passenger flow] - and we had quite high expectations”. Mr Dewar said: “I don’t think we’ve seen anybody that’s managing to get the same throughput.
” However, he said it was not known when the restrictions on liquids in hand luggage would be lifted again after the previous 100ml limit was re-imposed by the UK government in June. Mr Dewar said: “It’s still utterly uncertain when we’ll be able to go back to the 1-2 litre restriction as opposed to 100ml. “The hope is the government is going to give the tech providers new test regimes that will allow them to re-declare that they are ready to go back to either one or two litres, and allow each site [airport] to follow through on that.
” Mr Dewar said the lower limit meant more bags were having to be manually searched ..
