New security screenings for all passengers on US-bound flights began on Thursday, with airlines worldwide questioning flyers about their trip and their luggage in the latest Trump administration decision affecting global travel. The new regulations cover all the 2,100 flights from around the world entering the US on any given day. On Wednesday, it said it would conduct “passenger pre-screening interviews” for those traveling on US-bound flights in concert with other checks on electronics. Other airlines with US-bound flights at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport brought in as many as seven extra staff Thursday to question passengers under the new rules but there were no major delays, airport spokesman Lee Jung-hoon said. Emirates, the region’s biggest, said it slashed 20 percent of its flights to the US in the wake of the restrictions.

Source: Egypt Independent October 26, 2017 07:30 UTC