Patent ID: 8564401

Claim:
An airport security screening method within an airport facility, comprising: at a divestment station of the airport facility, providing an airport divestment and luggage cart to a passenger, wherein the cart includes a horizontal luggage tray for supporting carry-on luggage and bins for storing additional carry-on items; in a security-checkpoint to airline boarding areas of the airport facility, providing a scanner for scanning the cart loaded with the carry-on luggage and the additional carry-on items; directing the passenger into a queue for the scanner; with a conveyance assembly, transporting the cart through the scanner; and at a cart retrieval area, reuniting the passenger with the scanned cart and further including at the divestment station operating a reader device to verify entitlement for the passenger to the cart prior to completing the providing step, wherein the verifying of entitlement includes reading data from a passenger ID element and querying computer system maintaining a passenger record database including a plurality of passenger records defining cart usage entitlements.