Passengers now can carry up to 100 milliliters of perfume on flights leaving Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou City, New Express reported yesterday.

The airport in the capital city of Guangdong Province has adopted a national ban on passengers carrying liquids aboard planes since March 14. The ban was issued to improve security after a terrorist attack against a China Southern Airlines flight was thwarted on March 7.

Baiyun Airport's security department exempted perfume from the ban after instituting the regulations even though no passengers were reported to have missed flights because of the increased security measures, the Guangzhou-based newspaper said.

Many passengers had complained that they always carried perfume and the ban could cause inconvenience or even financial loss because some perfumes were expensive, the newspaper said.

A 19-year-old Uygur woman carried a camouflaged destructive device onboard flight CZ6901 on March 7, but was apprehended.

The attempted attack was planned by Eastern Turkestan separatist forces, said Wang Lequan, Party chief of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in Beijing on March 20. Airline sources said crew members smelt gasoline on the woman who was leaving a toilet during the flight and later found a can containing liquid in the rest room's dustbin.

The General Administration of Civil Aviation of China then issued a notice banning passengers from taking any liquids on domestic aircraft.

(Translated by Guangzhou Association of Foreign Affairs Translators)

Source : http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/