The new hand luggage control system will mean that holiday makers do not have to remove their liquids and electronics for scanning.
The new equipment is expected to reduce queues and speed up wait times through security during the peak summer period.
However, an exact date for when the systems will be up and running has not been confirmed, but it is understood that it will be rolled out at some point this year - hopefully ahead of the summer holidays, if not before.
The new systems are also being installed in Madrid and Barcelona but until other Spanish airports announce the change, holiday makers must still take out all liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) from their hand luggage to go through security.
Those travelling by plane will be used in the typical practice of placing LAGs in individual plastic see-through bags.
Spanish airport authority Aena has said that it is investing €1.1billion in airport security check systems in the decade leading up to 2028.
Airports in Britain are also updating their security halls with state-of-the-art security scanners, however some the country’s largest airports have warned that they will not meet the Government’s June deadline.
A number of smaller airports including London City and Teesside have already axed the 100ml liquids rule after fitting the new equipment.
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SaraHi Sara, any chance of you replying to the question I made a few days ago about Catalan nationalists ? Thanks
Morgan WilliamsThe problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy
It's subtle, but the insularity here is oozing. You all realise that English people aren't the only ones who speak English? English publications aren't only read by English people. I can assure you that this publication is routinely read by all kinds of "foreigners". And since "foreigners" are by far more dominant here than English people, it may well be that this publication is consumed more by non-native English speaking non-British citizens than Brits. And that may explain how the "rest of the world" sees that famous stereotypical insularity with remarkable clarity, while English people can't even begin to fathom where those stereotypes come from. "The apparent obliviousness makes it twice as effective".
SaraSerious question. How do Catalan nationalists refer to themselves whilst living in Madrid or other parts of Spain on a permanent basis ?
TDMy personal opinion is that Ulla is more connected to Spain than to Sweden.
In the meantime, nobody is focusing on the real reason we are being subjected to all of these controls.
TDThey advertise the MDB for “English speaking residents of Mallorca”. English speaking doesn’t mean just from England nor even British. Nor “expat”! I think you mean “immigrant”.
When we were in Mallorca last April we noticed that very few departing passengers seemed to be showing their liquids separately, so on our last visit we didn't take our liquids out of our hand luggage and passed through security without any bother. As far as we could tell, it seems that Palma airport hasn't required liquids to be presented separately for quite a while.
Do MDB know something we don’t maybe they are going to start searching us as we arrive just to make it more annoying for us and make us stand queuing
Ulla, maybe, just maybe because its an English language paper predominantly to be read by English ex-pats 🤷♂️. If you want something Swedish then read the equivalent paper (which probably doesn't exist). Stop whinging.