Airlines security review

Airports and aircraft continue to face a major threat - the past year alone has seen a number of alerts at airports around the country, and incidents that exposed glaring lapses in the security setup at airports:
The subject of a letter from the Civil Aviation ministry to all domestic airlines and major airport authorities – a copy of which is available to TIMES NOW - says it all. A meeting has been called to review and revamp security at airports and inside aircraft. And indeed the issues to be addressed are many...
- Access to areas in airports will be shifted to smart card and biometric systems. Fingerprints and smart cards cannot easily be faked
-An APIS or advance passenger information system is being implemented, that puts passenger information in the hands of security agencies before the passenger even arrives, so that suspicious persons can be singled out.
-Passenger profiling, a new for the Indian aviation industry, is being considered. The controversial procedure classifies passengers on the basis of region, even religion, for more stringent security checks.
-And finally, there will be contingency plans at various airports to deal with extreme events like hijackings and attacks. Small detachments of the crack NSG might even be deployed at major airports to reduce reaction time.
24/05/07 Times Now.tv

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Categories: Airports May 2007, General Aviation May 2007, Safety May 2007