No more secondary gate screening on Australia bound flights from certain airports?

[kyle]

Flew HKG-MEL on CX and there was none.

And HKG now using the new scanners where you don't have to take out anything.

 

[Austman]

Yes, me too, recently.

But it used to be done in HKG. So things have changed...

 

[Zero]

The gate confiscation of liquids at HKG on Aus-bound flights stopped in 2018

 

[Wing Nut]

We flew from SIN to AKL via MEL and had to rescreen our carry on in transit through MEL. Wow.

 

[Zero]

We flew from SIN to AKL via MEL and had to rescreen our carry on in transit through MEL. Wow.

You have to do this in most of the world

 

[kyle]

The gate confiscation of liquids at HKG on Aus-bound flights stopped in 2018

Is it still in force at other airports or the whole thing is gone?

 

[nancypants]

Is it still in force at other airports or the whole thing is gone?

Was still happening out of Denpasar as recently as a month ago

 

[Austman]

We flew from SIN to AKL via MEL and had to rescreen our carry on in transit through MEL. Wow.

That's NOT the secondary gate get that this thread is about.

 

[henrus]

We flew from SIN to AKL via MEL and had to rescreen our carry on in transit through MEL. Wow.

Australia’s policy on this is all transit passengers go through screening again with the one exception being if the flight has come from another Australian international terminal for example MEL-CNS-KIX on JQ during the transit in CNS no more screening is needed.

 

[jrfsp]

Was still happening out of Denpasar as recently as a month ago

I always manage to hide a bottle of water in the bottom of my carry on….

 

[auriga]

Just flew from TPE to SYD a few days ago.
No secondary gate screening.

 

[pjm99au]

MNL still had the secondary screening in late October

 

[nancypants]

I always manage to hide a bottle of water in the bottom of my carry on….

It seems like if you produce your bag of 100ml liquids when they ask, they don’t look too much harder

*i am not admitting to breaking the rule

 

[Pushka]

Flew HKG-MEL on CX and there was none.

And HKG now using the new scanners where you don't have to take out anything.

Yes. Reported that back in June. Iris scanning instead of boarding passes as well.

 

[cwd]

Yes. Reported that back in June. Iris scanning instead of boarding passes as well.

It's facial recognition, not iris scanning.

And yes, in places where there's the secondary liquids check, I've never noticed it to be thorough - seems like a total waste of time/money.