LONDON — Drink it or bin it: That phrase should have become history this summer at all U.K. airports. But it’s set to persist for at least another year after the British government said it will grant extensions to several large U.K. airports unable to meet the June 1 deadline to fully install new scanning technology. It did not provide …
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Baggage scanners at departure could soon be consigned to the scrap heap, according to the chief executive of London City Airport. Robert Sinclair, the New Zealand executive in charge at London City, predicts that technology will let passengers "walk through a security lane carrying a bag behind you, and being scanned as you walk through." The idea would turn airport …
