While numerous little family pets are permitted to take a trip through airport checkpoints, TSA advises tourists not to put their family pet through the X-ray system.
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TSA authorities at Washington Dulles International Airport performed a presentation on Friday to advise tourists to eliminate their little family pets from their providers prior to putting it into the X-ray system.
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Scott T. Johnson, TSA’s federal security director for Dulles Airport, acknowledged that family pets frequently take a trip with their owners and are even thought about to be member of the family.
“That’s why it’s important that if a passenger is traveling with their pet to become familiar with the security procedures for pets and how to go through the checkpoint security screening process together quickly and easily,” Johnson said, in a TSA release. “Key in the screening of pets is to know that they should never be screened through a checkpoint X-ray unit.”
To help tourists with family pets get ready for their next check out to an airport security checkpoint, TSA shared the following list:
- All family pets ought to be given a security checkpoint in a hand-held travel provider.
- Remove the family pet from the provider simply prior to the start of the screening procedure.
- Place the empty travel provider on the checkpoint conveyor belt so it can be X-rayed.
- Never put a family pet in the X-ray tunnel. The X-ray at the security checkpoint is utilized to evaluate travelers’ personal effects and carry-on baggage just.
- If possible, bring the family pet through the walk-through metal detector throughout the screening procedure. Alternately, a family pet can stroll through the screening procedure if the owner has the family pet on a leash. Best to listen to the assistance that a TSA officer is supplying.
- A TSA officer will provide the family pet owner’s hands an explosive trace detection swab to guarantee there is no explosive residue on the owner’s hands.
- After the screening procedure is total, owners ought to return their family pet to the travel provider at the re-composure location far from the security checkpoint. This place assists guarantee the safety of the family pet, in addition to other travelers.
TSA asks tourists to talk to the airline company and any airports they will be checking out since family pet travel constraints differ.
TSA authorities at Dulles Airport regularly screen tourists’ family pets. In addition, the airport deals four pet relief areas. Two lie outside the terminal (pre-security) and the other 2 are inside the concourses (post-security).
