COLONIE – The sleek new high-tech security scanners are installed at Albany International Airport and used by TSA officers.
Now they just need a little more cooperation from travelers.
The Transportation Security Administration said on Thursday that officials there are finding a plethora of prohibited items in luggage with the new machines, which use the same technology as medical CAT scanners and provide a similarly detailed three-dimensional image.
Any time someone bags a knife or tool longer than seven inches or an oversized liquid bottle, the bag must be pulled off the conveyor belt and hand-searched for the offending item.
The search takes two to three minutes, which adds up quickly at a time when Americans are returning in droves to a flight system not quite prepared for the increased passenger volume.
“We’ve seen a significant increase in checkpoint volume here in Albany,” said Bart R. Johnson,…
