The government will soon be issuing a standard format for e-tickets issued by different airlines to make it easier for the security personnel at the airports to verify passenger and flight details therein. The decision to have a uniform e-ticket format for all the airlines is a part of the latest guidelines finalised by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) for tighter aviation security as per a report in Economic Times.

Also taking a lesson from the January terror blast at the arrival lounge of Moscow's busy Domodedevo airport, the BCAS has directed the CISF to start random screening of baggage outside the airport, in addition to checking of vehicles and frisking visitors ahead of arrival and departure terminals. Visitors will now also not be allowed to carry any baggage. 

The BCAS had, during its review of aviation security last month - attended by representatives from MHA, civil aviation ministry and CISF - noticed that each airline was issuing its own kind of e-ticket, with different placement of key information like the passenger's name, flight number and destination. The CISF personnel deployed at the airports often have to carefully sift out the relevant information from the differently formatted e-tickets, adding to long queues and passenger delays. To avoid this inconvenience to the security personnel and also help speed up passenger traffic, the BCAS has decided to lay down a uniform format for airline e-tickets with easily readable details. 

As part of efforts to step up security even before you hit the airport building, the CISF has installed X-ray machines just outside the airports at Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. These are being used to carry out random checking of baggage before it is brought inside the airport building. The system is currently in the trial stage and will soon be replicated at all the 58 airports manned by the CISF. 

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