Abstract: A system for processing passengers and their luggage at civil airports including a passenger processing counter for verifying airline tickets and confirming passenger identity, equipment for conveying large luggage to be separately stowed aboard the plane from the counter to the plane and installations for performing a security check of both the passengers and their hand or cabin luggage. The system is characterized by a movable conveyor belt extending from the passenger processing counter and along side a passenger passageway for lined-up passengers and the counter in close proximity thereto but inaccessible to the passengers from the station for passenger processing to a point of pickup and handling by secure airport personnel.