Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello, I had a Paris-Hong-Kong and back last week and can only say that nothing has changed at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport. The security check was pretty much the same as usual, except for the opening of my camera bag (1st time in years at Roissy) to check the contents of the lead-bag I had with me. It seems that the bag came out completely opaque on the screen... No batteries had to be taken out of the M's or the XPan, nothing else checked. Normal forks & knives (metal) on the plane, nice flight attendants, everything seemed normal. Hong Kong is beautiful. Leicas for as cheap as 8500 HK$ (approx 1050 US$) for a M6 TTL... I guess that's grey market. Can't wait to return! Tarek le 02.10.2001 22:50, Nathan Wajsman à wajsman@webshuttle.ch a écrit : > I just took my first flights since Sept. 11, Zurich-Munich r/t. At > Zurich airport yesterday morning the security procedures were the same > as always, that is pretty stringent. The only visible difference was > that there was a passport check just before getting on the plane, > something that is normally only done on flights to the US, the UK and > Israel. I had no problems with my carry-on luggage--a standard "pilot > case" and my Domke 803 satchel with Leicas. As always, I just sent it > through the scanner, as I do not believe it causes harm to film. > > In Munich this morning, same story w.r.t. carry-on, but I did have to > take the lens caps of my Leicas. No need to take batteries out or any > such thing. I do not know how this compares to what they did in Munich > before Sept. 11, since this was the first time I flew there. > > This was on Swissair. So it appears that security continues to be > handled in the usual competent Swiss way. Unfortunataly the same cannot > be said of the management of the airline as a whole. It is now bankrupt > and all planes were grounded about 4 hours after I landed in Zurich this > morning... > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/ > General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ > Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html