AirAsia will be the first airline to pilot INTERPOL’s I-Checkit system to screen passports of all passengers against the world police body’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents database. The airline intends to implement this and integrate it with its check in systems by end May and it will be the first airline to do so. The INTEPOL system contains more than 40 million records from 167 countries.The I-Checkit system will be deployed across all of the airline’s international operations across 100 airports across Asia and 600 international flights per day to more than 20 countries globally.
Only your travel document number, form of document and country code will be screened against the system. If there is a positive match, AirAsia will refer the passenger to local authorities and INTERPOL would notify all relevant INTERPOL National Centre Bureaus worldwide.
Today, less than 10 countries screen passenger passports against INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document database. Approximately four out of every 10 passports on international flights are not screened against INTERPOL’s database even though it takes less than 0.5 seconds to query the database once a passport is scanned.
