Hand Baggage At Airports

Airline lost your baggage? Know your rights and compensation claim

If you're concerned that airlines might lose your baggage, it's important to know your rights, insurance options, and DGCA rules

Netcon Tech invests in Nikitek to revolutionise airport baggage handling

This move will transform the way baggage handling is done at airports, delivering a seamless, digitally enabled and eco-friendly travel experience, Netcon said

25,000 prohibited items removed from air passengers' bag every day: BCAS

From lighters to scissors to knives, around 25,000 prohibited items are taken out from the baggage of air passengers at airports in a day in the country and handling each of these items takes around three minutes, according to aviation security agency BCAS. As the air traffic in the country continues to rise, BCAS chief Zulfiquar Hasan on Monday stressed that time diverted for such prohibited items in the hand and check-in baggage can be otherwise utilised by the agency to deal with other graver threats. "We screen about 8 lakh bags which are hand baggage and about 5 lakh items that are checked in by passengers. This is a huge number," he said and added that on a daily basis, an average of around 25,000 prohibited items are found. In the hand baggage, 26 per cent of the prohibited items found are cigarette lighters, 22 per cent are scissors, 16 per cent are knives and 14 per cent liquids/ aerosols. When it comes to check-in baggage, Hasan said that around 44 per cent of the ...

Security watchdog recommends scanners allowing gadgets inside hand baggage

Currently, the scanners used at airports provide a two-dimensional view of the objects inside the hand baggage

Six more airports to do away with handbag stamping from June 1

The new airports are Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow, Patna,Chennai and Trivandrum