Airlines discuss new security measures
Plan to catch a flight without going through the security hassles? Try reaching the airport in your beachwear.
By PTI |
VANCOUVER: Plan to catch a flight without going through the security hassles? Try reaching the airport in your beachwear.
This was the suggestion made by Air Mauritius at the concluding session of the 63rd Annual General meeting of International Air Transport Association (IATA), titled 'Sense of Security'.
The suggestion was made in a jocular vein by Air Mauritius Chairman Sanjay Bhuckory at the session that was attended by professional security experts like Deputy Secretary of US Homeland Security Department Michael P Jackson, airport operators and airlines' representatives.
Airlines are facing passengers' ire for heightened security measures in place, since the 9/11 terror strike changed the ways of the civil aviation sector.
During the session, European and North American airline companies complained they were losing traffic on short-haul routes to bus and trains due to security hassles, but underscored the need to have stringent measures in place in an unobtrusive manner.
Suggestions were also made to ensure better and stronger coordination between airlines and security enforcement agencies.
Security experts stressed on biometric data collection through finger-prints, creation and sharing a database between countries and isolating the suspected trouble-makers for stringent checks, not causing hassles to genuine travellers.
US Homeland Security Department official Jackson said the US was cooperating with the European Union, Britain and other countries to create a database to segregate the genuine passengers from suspects.
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