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Officials astatine Paris Charles de Gaulle airport connected Tuesday unveiled a caller information baggage strategy and a dedicated baggage handling area up of nan 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The caller instrumentality includes a revamped scanner strategy to let a much elaborate scan of passengers’ baggage, truthful that travelers won’t person to region items specified arsenic electronic devices, aerosols aliases liquids from their bags.
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"If we person doubts astir a portion of luggage, nan luggage won’t leave," said Edward Arkwright, CEO of Aéroports de Paris Group, nan assemblage that runs Paris’ airports. "We for illustration an jock to time off without their luggage alternatively than leaving (with something) questionable."
A worker carries a suitcase successful nan "baggage factory," wherever athletes' luggage for nan Paris 2024 Olympic Games will beryllium collected, is seen successful Charles de Gaulle airport, successful Roissy-en-France, northbound of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, successful Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
As nan first gateway to nan 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, Charles de Gaulle Airport expects to process complete 114,000 baggage from delegations and nan media and will person an estimated 47,000 pieces of sports equipment.
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The airdrome besides unveiled nan "baggage factory," a dedicated abstraction covering 10,000 quadrate meters to process instrumentality and luggage of nan diversion delegations leaving nan airdrome pursuing nan closing ceremony.
"The biggest situation is nan oversized luggage," said Sébastien Malaussene, nan airport’s task manager. "Athletes recreation pinch each their sports instrumentality and they are not your mean rider bringing up to four, 5 bags. They person sports items, galore of which are oversized."
