Tourists skip bag checks at Sharm el-Sheikh airport for 20 pounds

Security concerns have been raised at Sharm el-Sheikh airport after a British tourist said he was offered the chance to pay 30 pounds to skip queues and baggage checks, as Independent reports.

Dale Parkyn visited the Egyptian resort with his wife earlier this year and told Sky News that a man in military uniform approached them and asked if they wanted to avoid the long queues.

He said that the Egyptian showed them a £20 note and told them that if the couple gave him one of those, they could avoid the queue.

Mr Parkyn claimed they paid and walk through security gates and security procedure adding that their baggage did not go through any scanner.
“When I think now, it was bizarre,” Mr Parkyn said, “At the time it was quite amusing that for us, for £20, we’d avoided all the queues”.

He said he realised how serious the situation is when he heard British government will suspend all flights to the holiday resort.

David Cameron suspended flights amid fears that an “explosive device” was used to crash the Russian passenger plane in Egypt killing all 224 people on board and that device was placed at the baggage area of the plane before taking off.