Travelers urged to pack wisely and arrive early at Albany airport

Travelers urged to pack wisely and arrive early at Albany airport

COLONIE — The sleek new high-tech security scanners are in place at Albany International Airport and the TSA officers are putting them to use. Now all they need is a little more cooperation from travelers. The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that officers there are finding an abundance of prohibited items in luggage with the new machinery, which use the same technology as medical CAT scanners and provide a similarly detailed three-dimensional image. Each time someone packs a knife, or tool more than seven inches long, or an oversized bottle of liquid, the bag must be pulled off the conveyor…
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