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Air India to have own security post at TIA

Sunday - 09th August 2009

The government has given permission to Air India (AI) to run its own security checking at the run way of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).The government is currently working on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for such security checks by officials of a foreign airline at the country´s only international airport. Once the procedures are ready, AI will be allowed to basically second-screen passengers and luggage with portable x-ray machines in the sterilized zone of the tarmac. Currently, officials of the Indian airline are only allowed to carry out manual-frisking of passengers at the ladder of the airplane.