The airport's director, Tomás Melgar, says that the current security control area will be moved so that it is to the rear of the check-in counters. The two controls that there are at present will be unified in creating a single area that will be the largest in Europe.
There will be 44 scanners and new security filters will have the most modern technology, which will speed up the entire process. Melgar explains that the machines will be equipped with a three-dimensional scanning system, controlled by artificial intelligence and capable of analysing the contents of luggage without the need for security guard examination except in exceptional cases.
It will not be necessary to remove liquids or electronic devices as there will be the capability of, for example, seeing under a laptop's battery. "It is a significant leap forward."
The average waiting time at security filters is around four minutes per passenger. Melgar says that the filter is very fast but adds: "It is difficult to improve the passage time, but it will be much more convenient for the passenger and less invasive. If it is also faster, then so much the better."
There will also be more check-in counters. At present there are 192; sixty more are to be created. As to the existing security control area, the reorganisation that the Aena airports authority is planning will convert this into what Melgar describes as "a traffic and commercial distribution plaza, very wide and open". Based on the layout of the commercial hall at Barcelona Airport, there will be corridors off this plaza for the different modules and boarding gates.
Work on all this is scheduled to start in November, the aim being that the bulk of the work will be ready for the start of the 2025 summer season.
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Williams, You haven’t answered Nigel’s question.
Nigel Maude"They do not come by air Morgan, in rubber boats". Funny, they say that in England too. They estimate the number of "boat people" in the thousands. Since there's no effective means of monitoring the number of foreigners living illegally in the UK, their best guess is somewhere in the low millions. These migrants did indeed overwhelmingly arrive by plane and just never left. But the accepted "solution" is to send "boat people" to Rwanda. With respect to Mallorca, do you really believe all those South Americans, Asians and North Africans (and Brits) living here without legal residence arrived on rubber boats? Or is it just a trigger button for you because it's the same trigger in England?
Morgan WilliamsThey do not come by air Morgan, in rubber boats. Anyway, Morgan, you are taking Malloquin jobs if you work here, why not work in the country of birth, Wales?
Richard PearsonYou know, Richard, to stop foreigners from comin' in here, takin' our jobs, livin' on benefits, and overloading the NHS.
Why do we need security areas in the first place ?
Hopefully the same outfit that are modifying the Paseo Marítimo can be brought in for this work to ensure it is all finished by Spring 2025