New Delhi: The government has revived the plan to provide respite to air travellers in India from the hassle of tagging their cabin baggage and then standing in the long queue at security checkpoints to get them stamped.
The plan, which has been discussed by the government since long, may happen soon with the civil aviation ministry asking the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to form a panel to review the necessity of cabin baggage tags and give its report within four weeks.
The decision to set up the panel was taken in a meeting called by the civil aviation secretary RN Choubey on Thursday. The meeting was part of a regular monthly exercise to discuss ways to improve the operational efficiency of airlines.
"The good thing about the aviation secretary is that he works with timelines. He has given BCAS four weeks to decide on the abolition of cabin baggage tags across India," said a senior executive of an airline, who attended the meeting."This issue is being discussed for long and despite a consensus on its abolition, we have not been able to abolish it."
As part of the standard operating procedure (SOP) followed at all the airports in the country, every passenger boarding a flight has to get a tag for the cabin baggage, which is then stamped at the security check and checked by the security personnel at the boarding gates to ensure that no unchecked baggage enters the aircraft.
29/06/16 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
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The plan, which has been discussed by the government since long, may happen soon with the civil aviation ministry asking the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to form a panel to review the necessity of cabin baggage tags and give its report within four weeks.
The decision to set up the panel was taken in a meeting called by the civil aviation secretary RN Choubey on Thursday. The meeting was part of a regular monthly exercise to discuss ways to improve the operational efficiency of airlines.
"The good thing about the aviation secretary is that he works with timelines. He has given BCAS four weeks to decide on the abolition of cabin baggage tags across India," said a senior executive of an airline, who attended the meeting."This issue is being discussed for long and despite a consensus on its abolition, we have not been able to abolish it."
As part of the standard operating procedure (SOP) followed at all the airports in the country, every passenger boarding a flight has to get a tag for the cabin baggage, which is then stamped at the security check and checked by the security personnel at the boarding gates to ensure that no unchecked baggage enters the aircraft.
29/06/16 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
