Gatwick Airport to Start Using UV Light Treatment to Disinfect Security Trays
September 17 2020 - 6:24AM
Dow Jones News
By Ian Walker
Gatwick Airport plans to start using a new ultraviolet light
treatment to disinfect security trays by the end of this month.
The airport--which is owned by Vinci Airports and a consortium
of investors managed by Global Infrastructure Partners--said the
treatment guarantees a 99.9% microbe disinfection rate, reducing
the spread of coronaviruses, including Covid-19, and other
infections.
The system--which is provided by Smiths Detection--will see
security trays passed under a covered "UV-tunnel" fixed underneath
the exiting hand luggage screening system.
The airport will start using the system on eight lanes at the
North Terminal by the end of this month.
"This new system has proven itself to be extremely reliable and
provides a really high degree of reassurance as every single
passenger and staff member using the system will have a tray that
has only just been disinfected," Gatwick Chief Operating Officer
Adrian Witherow said.
Write to Ian Walker at ian.walker@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 17, 2020 06:09 ET (10:09 GMT)
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