Report: Bengaluru Airport to begin passenger trials of full body scanners in December

Airport security in India asks passengers to remove all personal gadgets like mobile phones, tablets, and laptops from their hand baggage and place them separately in trays for a scan. While this is a necessary step to ensure that the devices are safe to be taken on an aircraft, it does pose considerable inconvenience for travellers.

Not to mention, the time taken to remove devices from your bags and placing them in trays causes long queues at security check.

The gadgets-in-tray security check process could, however, be slowly phased out at major Indian airports.

According to a report, Bengaluru airport is planning to move away from the cumbersome security check system.

Travellers catching a plane at Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, will soon be able to proceed through security check with their devices inside their hang bags.

A report said that the airport would be the first in India to begin passenger trials of CTX (Computer Tomography X-ray) machines at the terminal by December.

These CTX machines will be integrated with Automatic Tray Retrieval System (ATRS) and full-body scanners, which would allow passengers to carry their devices inside their handbags through security checkpoints.

According to officials of Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), which operates the Kempegowda International Airport, three full-body scanners have been set up at T2 to make the security check system more efficient.