UK aviation authority may ground IGI over security

New Delhi: Upset with “several deficiencies” at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), the British aviation security authorities have threatened to revoke the transhipment security exemption for air carriers operating between New Delhi and the UK.
Apart from domestic carriers Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Air India, the UK’s flag carrier British Airways and Virgin Atlantic connect the national capital with London.
Industry sources told FE that Transec, the British aviation security authority equivalent to Bureau of Civil aviation Security (BCAS) of India, has set a June 14 deadline to the airport operator to comply with its security standards.
Senior officials of the UK’s department of transport (DFT) had visited the cargo area of the Delhi airport a few weeks ago and found various loopholes in the screening process of the freight meant for export.
Confirming the development, a Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) official said the issue was being addressed.
07/06/10 Nirbhay Kumar/Financial Express

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Categories: Airports Jun 2010