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IATA Planning 10 New Trials in 2013 to Advance Checkpoint of the Future Concept

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

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Building on testing it began last fall with various aviation security stakeholders, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) this year plans to conduct 10 new trials at international airports and other environments to further advance its concept of a future airport security checkpoints, the head of the association says. The upcoming trials will support the roll out of the first end-to-end checkpoint in 2014 based on IATA’s Checkpoint of the Future blueprints that were released last fall, Tony Tyler, director…

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