DUBAI: Five global long-haul airways will begin new 'safety interviews' of all passengers on US-bound flights starting Thursday on the request of American officials, the firms said Wednesday.
Long-haul carriers Air France, Cathay Pacific, EgyptAir, Emirates and Lufthansa all said they'd get started the screenings. However, the airways presented different descriptions of ways the interviews would happen.
It wasn't straight away transparent if other global airways could be affected, even though the Trump administration up to now rolled out a laptop ban and shuttle bans that experience thrown global airways into disarray.
The US Department of Homeland Security did not straight away reply to a request for remark. However, it comes on the finish of a 120-day deadline for airways to satisfy new US regulations following the ban on laptops in plane cabins of some Mideast airways being lifted.
Air France said it's going to begin new safety interviews on Thursday at Paris Orly Airport and every week later, on Nov. 2, at Charles de Gaulle Airport. It said the extra screening will take the type of a questionnaire handed over to '100 p.c' of passengers.
Emirates said in a remark it could begin doing 'pre-screening interviews' at its check-in counters for passengers flying out of Dubai and at boarding gates for transit and switch fliers. It prompt those flying through Dubai International Airport, its headquarters, to permit additional time to test into flights and board.
"These measures will work in complement with the current additional screening measures conducted at the boarding gate," it said.
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said on its web site that it had suspended self-drop luggage services and products and that passengers heading to the USA "will be subject to a short security interview." Those with out bags would have a identical interview at their gates.
EgyptAir said in a remark the brand new measures come with extra detailed searches of passengers and their baggage and interviews. The strict procedures will lengthen to unauthorized agricultural or veterinary merchandise.
Germany's Lufthansa said the brand new laws came from the USA Transportation Security Administration, which is underneath Homeland Security.
"In addition to the controls of electronic devices already introduced, travelers to the USA might now also face short interviews at check-in, document check or gate," Lufthansa said in a remark.
In March, US officials instituted the ban on laptops in plane cabins across 10 Middle East cities over concerns Islamic State warring parties and other extremists could cover bombs inside of them. That ban was once lifted after those airways began the usage of units like CT scanners to inspect electronics simply before passengers board airplanes heading to the United States.
That laptop ban, as well as shuttle bans affecting predominantly Muslim countries, have harm Mideast airways. Emirates, the region's greatest, said it slashed 20 p.c of its flights to America within the wake of the constraints.
It wasn't straight away transparent if other Mideast airways were affected by the brand new laws.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad said its operations 'were standard' with out elaborating, whilst Doha-based Qatar Airways did not straight away reply to a request for remark.
Long-haul carriers Air France, Cathay Pacific, EgyptAir, Emirates and Lufthansa all said they'd get started the screenings. However, the airways presented different descriptions of ways the interviews would happen.
It wasn't straight away transparent if other global airways could be affected, even though the Trump administration up to now rolled out a laptop ban and shuttle bans that experience thrown global airways into disarray.
The US Department of Homeland Security did not straight away reply to a request for remark. However, it comes on the finish of a 120-day deadline for airways to satisfy new US regulations following the ban on laptops in plane cabins of some Mideast airways being lifted.
Air France said it's going to begin new safety interviews on Thursday at Paris Orly Airport and every week later, on Nov. 2, at Charles de Gaulle Airport. It said the extra screening will take the type of a questionnaire handed over to '100 p.c' of passengers.
Emirates said in a remark it could begin doing 'pre-screening interviews' at its check-in counters for passengers flying out of Dubai and at boarding gates for transit and switch fliers. It prompt those flying through Dubai International Airport, its headquarters, to permit additional time to test into flights and board.
"These measures will work in complement with the current additional screening measures conducted at the boarding gate," it said.
Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said on its web site that it had suspended self-drop luggage services and products and that passengers heading to the USA "will be subject to a short security interview." Those with out bags would have a identical interview at their gates.
EgyptAir said in a remark the brand new measures come with extra detailed searches of passengers and their baggage and interviews. The strict procedures will lengthen to unauthorized agricultural or veterinary merchandise.
Germany's Lufthansa said the brand new laws came from the USA Transportation Security Administration, which is underneath Homeland Security.
"In addition to the controls of electronic devices already introduced, travelers to the USA might now also face short interviews at check-in, document check or gate," Lufthansa said in a remark.
In March, US officials instituted the ban on laptops in plane cabins across 10 Middle East cities over concerns Islamic State warring parties and other extremists could cover bombs inside of them. That ban was once lifted after those airways began the usage of units like CT scanners to inspect electronics simply before passengers board airplanes heading to the United States.
That laptop ban, as well as shuttle bans affecting predominantly Muslim countries, have harm Mideast airways. Emirates, the region's greatest, said it slashed 20 p.c of its flights to America within the wake of the constraints.
It wasn't straight away transparent if other Mideast airways were affected by the brand new laws.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad said its operations 'were standard' with out elaborating, whilst Doha-based Qatar Airways did not straight away reply to a request for remark.
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