免税类 酒水类 Austrian airports confiscate liquors.
提交人：: Ross,发布人： : Editor on 2010-03-16
Austrian airports sieze alcohol. 免税类 酒水类
A recent statement from the Interior Ministry of Austria at a press conference for flight safety issues, has shown the extent to which travellers are still confused and suffering confiscation of their purchases when travelling in Europe
Airport staff in Austria reported more than 40,000 instances of people trying to take banned items onto flights last year, the Interior Ministry said, as water bottles, tooth paste and liquid gels continue to pile up in airports around the world. “
Ministry figures showed that airport staff had stopped 41,761 items, excluding liquids, from being taken onto flights for security reasons in 2009. The confiscation of liquid and gel items in Austria amounted to a staggering 585 kilos of liquids per day, equivalent to 585 litres per day or 213,525 litres for the year. It is not known how many of these items were duty-free goods.
Brigadier General Gerhard Moser, the head of the ministry’s division for airport and flight safety, was quoted as saying in the local media: “Many passengers forget that certain items have to be put into checked luggage and then, for example, stick a knife into one of their socks in an attempt to avoid problems.”
He added that knives, toy pistols, ice-picks, ice-skates, razors and razor blades, scissors, ski poles, walking sticks, golf clubs, and tools were among the items travellers had tried to take onto planes.
