Is Pakistan’s grey gamble sinking in the Strait?Fresh clashes between the US and Iran near the Strait of Hormuz have cast doubt on Pakistan’s role as a mediator in the crisis. While Donal...
08 May, 2026, 05.48 PM IST
Airline loses bag with sacred items; Indian passenger to get Rs 1.19 lakh compensationAn Indian airline has been ordered to pay Rs 1.19 lakh to passengers for losing checked-in baggage containing sacred items and costly cloth...
27 Apr, 2026, 07.00 AM IST
Air India passengers can now track checked-in bags by scanning baggage tagsAir India has introduced an AI-based feature in its mobile app that allows passengers to track their checked-in bags by scanning baggage ta...
03 Sep, 2024, 09.19 PM IST
Delhi airport introduces RFID-enabled tag to track arriving check-in luggageThe 'BAGG TRAX' tags will soon be commercially launched for flyers at the Delhi airport. Presently, as part of the pilot project, BAGG TRAX...
01 Jun, 2022, 03.34 PM IST
Hand baggage tag-free in 5 more airports; total 42 nowWith this, a total of 42 airports in the country out of the total 60 under the CISF security cover are now tag-free.
23 Jul, 2018, 06.37 PM IST
10 more airports to end stamping of hand baggage tags: CISF DGCISF, alog with other aviation security stakeholders, had started the regime at the Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow and Trivandrum, Patna and Che...
10 Sep, 2017, 03.37 PM IST
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security backs CISF, orders abolition of baggage tagsThe CISF Director General O P Singh had announced the abolition earlier this week, but the order could not be implemented until a direction...
01 Jun, 2017, 12.47 PM IST
No handbag tags at 6 more airports from tomorrowThe CISF, the central security force tasked to secure civil airports in the country, had a few days back declared the operalisation of the ...
31 May, 2017, 07.40 PM IST
6 more airports to go handbag tags free; trial beginsBeginning April 1, the CISF has already done away with the system at seven such air facilities in Delhi, Mumbai, Cochin, Bengaluru, Hyderab...
24 Apr, 2017, 05.37 PM IST
Stamping, tagging of hand baggage at airport to end from April 1The other airports which will see the new system of baggage security coming in include the ones in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Cochin an...
30 Mar, 2017, 05.41 PM IST
Stamping of hand baggage tags at seven airports to continueThe BCAS had issued a circular on February 23 declaring doing away with the mandatory practice of putting security stamp on the hand baggag...
02 Mar, 2017, 11.21 PM IST
Stamping of cabin baggage tags happening despite govt orderBCAS had announced yesterday that passengers flying out of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Cochin would not hav...
25 Feb, 2017, 12.56 AM IST
CISF to do away with stamping of baggage tags at six airports on trial basis from Dec 15If the experiment is successful, CISF go in for the second phase and do away with the system of stamping boarding pass as well
14 Dec, 2016, 08.06 PM IST
Get ready for tagless travel as airports planning to phase out cabin baggage tagsOnce agencies are satisfied that the move does not compromise security in any way, tagless travel will become the norm, as is the case in w...
09 Dec, 2016, 12.10 PM IST
Reforms in the air: Paper boarding pass, cabin baggage tag to become passéCabin baggage tag would also become history; validity of airport entry pass to be increased from one to three years.
03 Dec, 2016, 06.59 AM IST
Government looks to do away with cabin baggage tagsAs part of the standard operating procedure followed at all the airports in the country, every passenger boarding a flight has to get a tag...
30 Jun, 2016, 01.50 PM IST
Aviation Ministry asks BCAS to form panel to review baggage tags' needThe decision to set up the panel was taken in a meeting called by the civil aviation secretary RN Choubey on Thursday.
29 Jun, 2016, 10.25 AM IST