The British Department of Transport has now intensified its security warnings as millions of airplane passengers are expected to rush to the airports for their summer vacations.

The United Kingdom has developed new security checks in accordance with the United States’ recent changes in airport security measures.

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These include a closer examination of footwear, gadgets, and objects with electrical components in their hand luggage.

As part of the security check, passengers flying to and out of the UK are now being required to show that all of their electronic devices are functional.

They will have to turn on their gadgets to demonstrate that such devices do not contain explosives and do not pose risk to airplane passengers.

However, increased airport checks due to heightened safety measures are expected to cause delays and longer lines.

The security alert for the UK was issued after Jeh Johnson, secretary of the US Homeland Security, requested that security be tightened at foreign airports that have aircraft flying directly to the US.

According to a recent Reuters report, US authorities have directed their attention towards devices from Apple and Samsung.

Bomb makers who belong to an Al-Qaeda group have been believed to have travelled from Yemen to Syria to work with Jabhat al-Nusra, also associated with Al-Qaeda.

They are expected to generate explosives that are almost invisible to airport security.

These can be linked to previous encounters with Al Qaeda members, such as a plan to detonate a bomb inside a jet flying over Detroit in 2009 as well as a similar yet more complex device that was seized by the CIA in 2012.

The Department of Transport has declared that aviation security measures are regularly monitored.

It also continue to assert the statement released last week that majority of passengers are unlikely to experience interruptions in common airport routines.

TagsWashington Homeland Security, Al-qaeda, Jeh Johnson