CHENNAI: Passengers from Chennai International Airport can heave a sigh of relief as the airport is planning to do away in two weeks the need for them to queue up to scan their luggage at stand-alone X-ray machines before depositing them at the check-in counter.
Under the new plan, travellers can go directly to the airline’s check-in counter and drop baggage on the belt. Scanning will be done in several stages even as each piece of baggage travels on the conveyor belt to the hub from where it will go into the aircraft belly.
Chennai airport director S Sreekumar told Express that the inline baggage scan facility is planned to be introduced at the domestic airport also by this year-end.
New machines have been installed and tested, but the hitch is trained manpower to handle them. Ten to 15 batches have to undergo training, which is being done in Kochi.
