International Airline violates security norms

At a time when security concerns loom day to day, TIMES NOW has discovered a blatant violation of security norms at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi. Our investigation exposes an international airline's clear disregard for rules by sub-letting its ground operations to an unauthorised local travel agency, in blatant violation of the airport ground handling policy of the IGI airport.
The IGI airport - the Capital's premier airport - has a passenger traffic of about 23 lakh a year. When TIMES NOW decided to check operations here, there was a shock in store.
This reporter obtained documents to show that a Korean airlines by the name Asiana Airlines, operating in India for the last 11 years, has been defying the security norms listed by the Bureau of Civil Aviation and worse, this has apparently gone on unchecked and unhindered for years.
Posing as candidates seeking a job at the aiport, our TIMES NOW reporter found that Asiana Airlines has entered into a contract with a local travel agency called R L Travels - without clearance by the Bureau of Civil Aviation.
In an RTI reply the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has clearly mentioned that R L Travels does not have security clearance by the Aviation Ministry as a ground handling agency, nor is it authorised to issue Airport entry passes to employees of R L travels. In that case, how did the Ministry manage to overlook this lapse, and that too for such a long time?
22/04/10 Times Now.tv

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Categories: Airports Apr 2010, Foreign Apr 2010, Safety Apr 2010