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IATA Begins Testing Components Of Future Aviation Security Checkpoints

Friday, January 4th, 2013

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An international association that represents passenger and cargo airlines last fall began testing technologies that can be used in future airport checkpoints to improve security while facilitating greater passenger throughput and plans to expand that testing in 2013 and 2014, a representative for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said last month. The testing is aimed at helping IATA to continue to improve its definition of a future checkpoint concept as well as developing best practices that it can recommend, Nina…

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