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Thai Airports to Charge for New Security Info System
27th Jan 2012
Security concerns at airports around the world have prompted Airports of Thailand (AoT) to institute a new system to be put into place in the near future. All airports in Thailand servicing international flights will, under the planned system, charge passengers Baht 90 for a new Advanced Passenger Information System (APPS).
The system is intended to examine and screen the personal information of incoming and outgoing passengers at the country's airports. Patterned after the system introduced in the United States in 2008 and adopted afterwards by Australia and Europe the APPS, however, still has to be approved by the Thai cabinet, the Transport Ministry and Thai security agencies.
The new APPS system will enable Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT), operator of Suvarnabhumi and the other five main airports of Thailand, to transmit passenger information gathered from passports and flight details to all airport authorities in order to determine whether or not a passenger may be allowed to leave the country. The electronic data interchange system will also inform commercial airlines if they should allow a passenger to check in for a flight.
Somchai Sawasdeepon, director of Suvarnabhumi Airport said that the APPS will facilitate the flow of passengers going through the airports and increase the level of security. He added that AoT still needs to invest in the new system but expects it to be operational within six months. The additional fee will be collected by the commercial airlines which are expected to pass on the additional charge to their passengers.
In addition to the new security charge, passengers at airports operated by AoT will also have to shoulder a higher airport tax, or Passenger Service Charge (PSC), from the current Baht 700 to Baht 800 for international flights. For domestic flights, the PSC increase will be an additional Baht 155 from its present rate of Baht 100 by mid-2013.
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