Passengers give their view on Gatwick airport's new state-of-the-art security scanning process

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Passengers travelling through London Gatwick no longer need to remove electrical items or place liquids in plastic bags, as part of a multi-million-pound project to transform its security screening process. We spoke to passengers who had just been through security to get their thoughts on the new process

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00:00I spoke to some passengers as well afterwards to see what they thought of

00:03the process. My name's Lauren and I'm here with my friends to go on a 40th

00:08birthday trip to Portugal. Oh very nice sounds great and you've just been through

00:12the security screening process it's a new advanced enhanced it's supposed to be

00:16all quicker now how did you find the experience? We were through within about

00:19two minutes so it's amazing yeah yeah and that's the first time you've been

00:23through it like that? First time we've been through it yeah well we're all mums as well

00:26so we normally have kids and everything so it was gonna be quicker anyway but it

00:29was really quick. Did you know about that it was gonna be as quick as that when

00:32you first when you came in? No I didn't realize it would be that quick but I knew

00:36that we wouldn't have to take our like liquids out and stuff I'd heard about it

00:40but yeah it was great. Yeah so when you come before how long did it sort of take

00:44roughly do you think so? Up to half an hour maybe longer sometimes but yeah and

00:48definitely not that quick. Like a minute or two it was so quick like fair to usual

00:53you don't have to get all like the stuff out of your bag because it was so much

00:56quicker and so much easier. You literally just glide right through like it's so much

01:00easier it's it's more organized so you know exactly what you're doing and you're

01:03just sent straight through to one thing so it just gets you out quicker.

01:07I'm Sammy I'm from the Isle of Wight and we are we're both off to Toronto yeah okay

01:12and I'm Will I'm from Southampton. So we're going to work at a summer camp in two hours north of Toronto

01:18a place called the Scotia. Okay sounds exciting and we're here today talking

01:22about the new security scanning process as you come through. How long did it take

01:25you to get through the scanning process today? About three minutes or so? Yeah it was much quicker than normal.

01:30Very quick no queues straight in didn't have to unpack anything it's great yeah. My name is

01:35Tracy Parsons I live in London and I'm going to Kent Bologna. Oh lovely is that

01:40just a summer break? Yes it is. Excellent and we're here today talking about the new

01:45scanning procedure at London Gatwick Airport how did you find it today? Brilliant yeah

01:50what made it so good? Well from when we checked in I like the fact that you did

01:55it all on your phone we printed out our boarding passes at home in case we

02:00couldn't get signal but the signal was fine we checked in we got our receipt for

02:05our luggage which I thought was good we went through the security it was the best

02:10it's ever been right quickest I like the fact that you didn't have to put it all

02:16in different boxes just put your bag on brilliant we've had time to have a nice

02:21breakfast yeah I'm David Ewan and then I'm going flying up to Aberdeen from London

02:26Gatwick I work offshore so travel regularly yeah found it really good better than

02:33what has been in the past went through no problem so we've got five minutes to get

02:37through

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