Starting from the month of April of this year, travelers who are passing through the Tallinn Airport in Estonia can expect higher security.
This will be in the form of simpler security checks, as the authorities have moved to eliminate the manual checking to ensure that visitors do not carry laptops and liquids in their hand carries.
For this reason, the airport in Estonia will be launching and installing new scanners, which will be placed at all the checkpoints within the premises.
New equipment
Due to the replacement and reinstallation of all security equipment at the airport, passengers have been informed beforehand.
This is due to the fact that they are likely to endure slightly longer wait times starting from now and ending in the month of March.
According to the ERR, Estonian Public Broadcasting, with the help of the newly launched and installed screening devices, security is going to become much more streamlined.
It explained that these new scanners implement 3D technology as a way to display the contents of the hand luggage that passengers are carrying.
Moreover, the relevant experts who have tested these scanners have deemed that they pose no threats to the health of travelers.
Old rule
On this note, the chair of aviation security at the Tallinn Airport, Tarvi Pihlakas, took to commenting on the decision, saying that this move is going to enhance the convenience of passengers.
In his words, the authorities will soon be coming up with additional steps and plans to potentially get rid of the requirement to carry liquids in different bags.
Pihlakas further stressed that this change is only going to apply to passengers traveling through the Tallinn Airport.
He noted that other airports, even in the same country, may not agree to eliminating or altering this rule.
In terms of the ongoing work to install the scanners, the head of aviation security took to advising travelers to take certain precautions to not miss their flights.
One of these is to make sure that they are at the airport at least two hours before their flight is supposed to take off.
Pihlakas further stipulated that rush hours are often busy for the airport in terms of the high influx of travelers. For this reason, lines tend to last up to 25 minutes or more.
Prices
According to sources, the replacement of all safety equipment is going to cost the airport a sum of around €2.8 million.
In the last month, the Tallinn Airport took to providing some key data, which indicated that the airport saw a major influx of travelers in the previous month.
The figure stood at 210,000 passengers who had passed through the gates of one of the top airports in Estonia.
The figure was indicative of the second-highest turnout on record in the month of January, which only slightly trailed behind the peak in 2020, which was observed before the pandemic.
Consequently, the year-on-year comparison indicated an increase of over 7% in the number of passengers.
