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Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by madeofpalk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:06AM (#14940690)
> An Apple from Sydney to Perth

Wait, what? There's no screening or security on domestic arrivals in Australia. There's no customs. There's no signage warning about this. This is the first I've ever heard of this and I have trouble believing this.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by zanchey on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:34AM (#14940757)
There is quarantine, though:

http://www.interstatequarantine.org.au/travellers/interstate...

Driving or flying to or from WA, you will see inspectors and dogs.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by madeofpalk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:45AM (#14940780)
Huh that's so interesting. I've done plenty of flying along Eastern Australia so I never had a reason to presume there was anything more over in WA.

Thanks.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:26AM (#14941024)
I live in Launceston Tasmania, there's a fruit bin on the way in to the airport from the tarmac. Nearly every time I've been to the airport here there is a Beagle getting about on the luggage carousel.

Now that I think about it, that dog might not be there entirely for fruit. There was a bit of a spate of people bringing ice (meth-amphetamine) in through checked baggage a couple years ago. Who does that?

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by will_hughes on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:09AM (#14941590)
Unfortunately the beagles are mostly gone from Hobart airport. There's just the one now, I'm told, and s/he wasn't on duty last I flew down. Family that fly through there regularly all say they havnt seen it on duty much either.

This made my paranoid checking of whether my chosen brand of fruit-oil containing shower gel would be permitted kind of redundant.

For somewhere there's not supposed to be fruit fly, we sure saw a lot of fruit flies.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by jsjohnst on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:14AM (#14941158)
Beagles usually are used for smelling foods (vegetables and meats), not drugs.
Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by caf on Sunday August 06, 2017 @07:29AM (#14940882)
Every eastern state airport I've ever seen has fruit bins at the gate or on the airbridge, and there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit.
Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by SyneRyder on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:30PM (#14941950)
there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit

Yup, was about to mention this. I did Sydney to Perth a couple of weeks ago & Qantas made that announcement close to landing. In particular, they mention not to bring honey into Western Australia, and to talk to a flight attendant if you were carrying honey.

I do remember seeing signage (somewhere) in Perth on arrival, but I don't remember seeing any disposal bins.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by madeofpalk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:38AM (#14941054)
They 100% don't have disposal bins at Sydney T3, nor do I remember them at Melbourne or Brisbane. I've spent a lot of time in that airport, sometimes without even flying and I've never seen anything other than just regular bins and the "oops I forgot this bottle of water" before security.
Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by will_hughes on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:12AM (#14941607)
Water and liquids are permitted through security on domestic flights from domestic airport terminals. No reason to dump your bottle of water.

http://travelsecure.infrastructure.gov.au/onboard/liquids-ae...

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by NamTaf on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:41AM (#14941490)
There's similar if you go north of Brisbane. Turns out, having a ridiculously sparse population is also a good defence against the spread of plant diseases.

There's actually signs somewhere north of BNE telling truckies that they can't take bananas past that point, for example.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by mcguire on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:50AM (#14941519)
Does California still have the agricultural prohibitions? I can remember the fruit fly traffic inspections in the '70s.

I've also been sniffed by a Dept. of Agriculture beagle coming back from Puerto Rico.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by vinay427 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:17AM (#14941622)
I-10 from AZ still has an inspection station that seemed to wave through most passenger vehicles.
Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by sl4i6j3o4i98g on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:55AM (#14941783)
Same in South Australia, mostly to prevent the spread of Fruit Fly (confined to eastern part of Australia). WA and SA rely economically on fruit plantations, so the noxious fruit fly could cause grave damage to local economies.

Don't travel with fruit in Australia, its the height of selfishness.

Re:Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch by callahad on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:21AM (#14940723)
Can't speak for Perth, but flights into Tasmania absolutely go through another round of biosecurity screening.