Arrival Screening Double standard

Ponders SG

Does anyone know what the guideline is for passengers to be subjected to screening upon arrival at Changi Airport?

Why is it that some flights, the passengers are immediately scanned by metal detector and x-ray immediately after debarking the plane.

But some passengers can walk away freely.

I notice that it is more dependant on the airlines you take rather than the destination you are from.

Pitot SG

Well, I'm not sure abt this but the design at the airport allows the security needs and checks to be catered differently for different regions.

Passengers get the security check just before u embark onto the play which is abit different from the major US airports where all of u get check before u get into the departure area.

Ponders SG

Yes, i know about the departure part. Singapore actually is one of the very few airports where you are screen just before you board the planes. This requires lots of manpower and expensive equipment.

But i am more concerned why for example,

You arrive from city X, using airline X, you get check.

But you arrive from city X using airline Y, you don't get check.

LeftHandSeat SG

Classified info.
think of the common good.

Ponders SG

I don't see how it is classified when it is in plain view for all to see.

Any potential security threat will know about this and just take the airline that do not get checked.

Pitot SG

Roughly the same as the departure procedure?

X flight on X airline to X destination may have bans on several suff compared to Y flight etc..

I guess sometimes its how they classify the treat level?

Like some flights have marshals some flights dont.

Ponders SG

Yup, i mean for departure procedures, sometimes they have to comply with destination country's laws.

So like for a flight to North America naturally will have more strict procedures regardless of the airlines.

But you see, the problem is when you ARRIVE into singapore.

Passenger A and Passenger B came from the same city. Arrive singapore the same time.

Just that, Passenger A use Airline X (singapore registered), Passenger B use Airline Y (also singapore registered)

But Passenger A get check and Passenger B did not.

i am like passenger A and B, somehow if i fly "the other" airline, i always get checked upon leaving the plane.

But using the other airline, i can just walk direct to passport control.

Vigelic SG

no check = SIA, got check = tiger airways? is it?

gasband SG

It all depends on the airlines procedures really. I remember a few years ago when there was a high alert for weapons on board aeroplanes…. I was on Qantas to Perth and they used plastic forks and spoons for our meals..at Perth: No check. But on return trip to Singapore, they used metal forks and knives, at Singapore: Check.

megatron SG

The airlines has nothing to do with it.
These procedures caused the airlines as much inconvenience and costs as the passengers. PRocedures came from higher level, much higher level.
get it?..

^tamago^ SG

maybe ur time of arrival has something to do with it?

LeftHandSeat SG

Maybe they looking fro him. hee hee hee....jus kidding.

Ponders SG

Nope.

The "said" airline is competing with Silkair. Thus their departure and arrival times usually differs by 5-15 mins from origin city.

But if you take latter, you just walk out of plane upon arriving singapore.

But you take former, you need to go metal detector and hand carry goes x-ray the moment you step off plane.

Ponders SG

I think these much higher level trying to show that if you take "budget or low cost" airline, you get this inconvenience.

^tamago^ SG

ok understand liao. Laughing

SpecOps87 SG

Actually…i suppose their screening is done this way. Say today, people wearing this coloured shirt, or carrying this brand of luggage etc get screened. Tomorrow, a different criteria. Because they do look at dressing. When i go overseas, on return if I wear really casual, like berms and sandals, they stop me. But when i’m wearing more formally ie.Smart casual, nobody stops.

TIB1186Z SG

I doubt that airline plays a part, I have noticed that passengers disembarking from the said airline also gets checked at the arrival gate, thus I would think it might be just purely random check based on certain “criteria of the day”. It would also depend on gate allocation as the X-ray machines at the gate must be free upon the arrival of the aircraft. However I do agree its really a pain and great inconvenience to the passengers especially if its a fully loaded flight on a large aircraft (my worst was waiting 30mins at the queue after disembarking with 300 over pax from a Finnair flight from HEL via BKK).