100% Hold Baggage Screening (HBS) at Manchester Airport John Cordingley

The Check-in to Aircraft Ideal All baggage screened for explosive devices All baggage tracked and accounted for Delivered to the correct aircraft on time

The HBS X-ray Options Standalone x-ray in front of check-in X-rays built in to the check-in X-rays downstream from check-in

We are going to deal with the down stream model augmented by check-in x-rays Check–in to Aircraft Basic Route Check–in to Baggage Sortation Sortation to Aircraft

Hold baggage presented for check-in must be within a gauge for size and weight Items above this weight limit must be labelled as heavy 1.2m 63 cm 3.5 – 35kg

Items too heavy, too large, too light, fragile , with wheels or straps are classed as out of gauge (OOG) Surfboards Televisions bicycles toolboxes rucksacks These are sent to the OOG belt which is wider and slopes more gradually into baggage sortation

Out of gauge items here at Manchester are screened and cleared by an operator using Vivid EDS These are sent to the OOG belt which is wider and slopes more gradually into baggage sortation

Before baggage can be introduced in to the system it must be labelled Labels contain the following information:- Flight Number Airline Airport of Origin Airport Destination Passenger Name Baggage Chute

Explosive Devices down stream Standard baggage introduced into the inline system will be screened 100% for Explosive Devices down stream 1800 BPH Level 1 Vivid (automatic 2 secs per bag) 384 BPH Level 2 Invision CTX 5500 (automatic 16 secs per bag) Level 3 Operator intervention to ALARM at Level 2 Level 4 Bag reconciled with passenger for search (contents unclear or D G identified ) Level 5 I.E.D in bag procedure

Vivid Level 1 ALARM CLEAR CLEAR Check-in Restricted Zone Vivid Level 1 ALARM CTX CLEAR CLEAR CTX CTX CTX 5500 Level 2 UNCLEAR Level 4 or IED Level 5 CTX CTX Baggage Sortation Operator Control Room Level 3

Level 1 Vivid 35% alarm rate (1800 BPH 2 secs per bag) Level 1 Exit