Body scan on international arrival

[john smith]

To settle a bet does one go through a body scan on arrival at Bangkok airport?  My friend believes AI which says yes. I say this only happens at departure and AI is wrong.

[Patong2021]

At 2ndary screening for some high risk individuals, otherwise for 99% of people, NO.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

Have you asked your friend why he needs to know the answer to this?

[NanLaew]

5 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

At 2ndary screening for some high risk individuals, otherwise for 99% of people, NO.

 

Since there's no primary body scan security screening inbound, how can they do secondary screening? Maybe after they get flagged-up at passport control and taken aside?

 

There's security screening for those CIS passengers transiting airside from international to domestic and vice-versa.

 

Maybe that's what is confusing AI?

[novacova]

35 minutes ago, john smith said:

To settle a bet does one go through a body scan on arrival at Bangkok airport?  My friend believes AI which says yes. I say this only happens at departure and AI is wrong.

Your “friend”? What contraband do you plan on bringing in? 

[Crossy]

8 minutes ago, novacova said:

Your “friend”? What contraband do you plan on bringing in? 

 

And where is he planning on concealing it?

 

I believe they are x-raying all arriving baggage before it gets to the carousel, but that's about it unless you get selected to have your bags x-rayed at the customs post on the way out.

[john smith]

 Slightly irritated by two of the comments in particular the one with "Friend" in inverted commas please let me explain. My " friend" is an eighty three year old lady with arthritis in both shoulders. She was scared that the officers might  not understand her inability to lift her arms and not understand her refusal to do so. Previously she has only flown to Europe and how Asian airports work and the possible lack of English was a matter of considerable concern. Her son Googled the question. The first AI answer there was wrong. I have a small for fun bet on the question. Thank you to those who actually answered the question sensibly. I shall pass on the information.

[soi3eddie]

1 hour ago, john smith said:

She was scared that the officers might  not understand her inability to lift her arms and not understand her refusal to do so.

 

She should talk with the security staff and explain her ailment that prevents her raising her arms. There are werll trained female staff who can easily, and sensitvely screeen her, in private, if neccessary. It is no big deal. Just talk to the security staff.

 

[VBF]

13 hours ago, Crossy said:

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I believe they are x-raying all arriving baggage before it gets to the carousel, but that's about it unless you get selected to have your bags x-rayed at the customs post on the way out.

Do you really believe that @Crossy?

 

Not arguing for the sake of it but I rather think that would be too time-consuming and labour intensive and that most airports world-wide select either:

A random sample of cases to scan

and/or

Ones where the security / customs forces have prior negative information about the owner.

 

Of course you may have inside knowledge in which case (pun intended 🙄) I would be wrong.

 

Either way, I have no issues if they want to take a look at my T-shirts.

I have been selected by Customs once in over 30 years visiting Thailand - they must've approved of the T-shirts! 😎

 

[DFPhuket]

I travel extensively in the region, and the only place where I’ve occasionally encountered body scans on arrival is Singapore, typically for flights from specific countries. At BKK, I’ve never seen body scanners used for arriving passengers. However, customs routinely x-rays luggage, and if they had any suspicions, they would conduct a pat-down or another type of body search.