On March 13, China's aviation authority announced that passengers were no longer allowed to take liquids onto domestic flights. The move was part of efforts to tighten security with the summer Olympics only five months away.

The new measures came after a woman carrying a suspicious liquid attempting to crash a plane was caught en route from Urumqi to Beijing on a China Southern Airlines flight.

Staff would open up and check more hand baggage than before, the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) said.

"Easy boarding" services, where passengers pay for the privilege of speedier security checks and priority boarding, would also be banned.

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