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AirAsia As Pilot Airline For INTERPOL Security System
15th May 2014
The global travel industry has been growing at an unprecedented rate in recent years and is expected to grow even faster in the next several years as the global economy grows. One of the major concerns among travelers is security which has been a perennial issue that the travel industry continues to address.
Enter INTERPOL I-Checkit system. Recently, the global police organization and AirAsia Bhd. signed an agreement that would facilitate the installation of I-Checkit system in all of AirAsia's check-in counters across its network (affiliate airlines).
The facility will check the passports of the passengers against the database of Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) during their check-in at the airport. INTERPOL's database contains over 40 million records from more than 160 countries.
According to the INTERPOL, the facility won't be able to gather personal information from the passengers except for the document number, form of document and the country code. This will remove fear or apprehension from passengers and local legislators of the respective countries where the airline operates.
The innovative security system will work more efficiently because of the features it employs to match passport's data against the INTERPOL's database. If the document registers a positive result, meaning it finds a match on the database, the airline claims it has its own procedure to alert the local authorities for such eventuality.
Additionally, the system itself will alert the local office of the INTERPOL's National Central Bureau (NCB) through transmission of the data of the document found positive. The INTERPOL's headquarters in Lyon, France will also receive the same data transmitted by I-Checkit.
AirAsia CEO, Tony Fernandes, expressed his pleasure on the new security system that his airlines will adopt, saying their partnership with INTERPOL will certainly result to improved security for all passengers flying with AirAsia, on top of low fares that they offer.
The I-Checkit facility will be installed across the airline's entire network of operations, spanning 100 airports and covering 20 countries across Asia. The AirAsia group currently makes about 600 international flights per day globally.
Though security measures are put in place in every airport across the world, no airlines have initiated such procedure for the added security of their own passengers flying with them. It is estimated that fewer than 100 countries are currently using systemic passport screening against INTERPOL's Stolen and Lost Document database. This means that international airports of less than half of the more than 200 countries don't screen passports against INTERPOL's database.
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