Mumbai: In a major security breach at the Mumbai airport, a Kingfisher Airlines passenger entered the airport, got a boarding pass and even cleared security check without a valid ticket for that day. Gujarat-based Arunesh Chandra Nag, who had a Mum-bai-Ahmedabad Kingfisher ticket dated March 9, 2011, mistakenly reached the city airport on March 8, a day before the scheduled date of travel and was let in by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) guard, who ‘checked’ Nag’s e-ticket, at the gate of Terminal 1A.
Nag then collected his boarding pass from an automated self check-in kiosk inside the terminal. At the security check, the CISF official on duty once again let Nag through overlooking the date of departure on the boarding pass. Minutes before boarding the flight, Nag realised the goof-up and reported the matter to the airline’s ground staff.
“The CISF promptly took me to their office and made an entry of the incident in their register,” Nag told HT over the phone from Anand, where he resides.
A Kingfisher Airlines spokes-person confirmed the incident. “Our records show that the passenger (Nag) self checked-in on March 8,” said the spokesperson, adding that the kiosks check-in passengers up to 48 hours before the time of travel.
06/07/11 Soubhik Mitra/Hindustan Times
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