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Originally Posted by RWebb
Yes, the airplanes are tightly controlled as Wayne noted. The whole idea is to make it as transparent as possible to human passengers. That's why you don't notice anything usually.
I don't know re the Hawaiian Islands, but in some cases the entire cargo compartment has been flushed with deadly gases to prevent some of the mistakes of the past with invasives.
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Having flown between the islands countless times, I haven't seen anything other than standard loading in and unloading of luggage and/or cargo from the holds. Usually, the cargo and luggage is scanned at check in. That's the difference passengers do notice that isn't part of the boarding procedure on the mainland.
However, that scanning takes place on both trans-island and, oddly enough, flights
from Hawaii back to the mainland. One isn't made to have their luggage scanned for food or fruit from the mainland when going out to the Hawaiian islands.
Again, people in Kauai, at least, don't consider the biological hazards involved with the super ferry, if any, but rather the population hazard. Those on Kauai simply don't want their island overpopulated.