Mr. Wilmink: They are taken out and checked by the security officer.

While travellers, carriers and governments can access current data on the schedules and seek capacity for scheduled carriers such as Air Canada and WestJet, this type of information does not exist for Canadian charter carriers.

Mr. Clifford Mackay: The fees the corporation charges to the airlines are charged in order to cover their operating costs, which are almost entirely focused on the cost of maintaining and deploying the equipment now.

3. In the case of all carriage performed by Community air carriers, the limits indicated in accordance with the information requirements of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be those established by this Regulation unless the Community air carrier applies higher limits by way of voluntary undertaking.

According to Article 4(1)(a) of the Regulation on access for Community air carriers to intra-Community air routes [55], a Member State, following consultations with the other Member States concerned and after having informed the Commission and air carriers operating on the route, may impose a public service obligation in respect of scheduled air services to an airport serving a peripheral or development region in its territory or on a thin route to any regional airport in its territory, any such route being considered vital for the economic development of the region in which the airport is located, to the extent necessary to ensure on that route the adequate provision of scheduled air services satisfying ...[+++]fixed standards of continuity, regularity, capacity and pricing, which standards air carriers would not assume if they were solely considering their commercial interest.

Mr. Fleshman: In general terms, baggage is checked in, an identification tag is attached, and then we go through procedures once the bag is on a conveyor belt behind the scene.