AirAsia will use Interpol to Check Passport System

AirAsia will use Interpol to Check Passport System

AirAsia, which is also based in Malaysia, said the Interpol system will use the "I-Checkit" to check passengers passports when registering.

The top low-cost airlines in Asia, Air Asia, said on Tuesday (13/5) will be the first airline in the world who check passports of all passengers and match them with Interpol's global database to 42 million documents were stolen or lost, at the end of this month.

The loss of aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 revealed a large gap in aviation security when two passengers were found to have entered into an airplane with a stolen passport. Interpol says it has information about the theft of the passport but authorities do not examine their data.

AirAsia, which is also based in Malaysia, said the Interpol system will use the "I-Checkit" to check passengers passports when registering. This will be done on all 600 international flights every day that use the 100 airports around the region, according to the company.

"AirAsia has set a new standard aircraft safety," according to Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble, who quoted AirAsia. "This will raise standards across the industry for the security and safety of passengers."

AirAsia says no private data is sent to Interpol in addition to their passport number and country of issuance of passports. If there is a match with the data base, local authorities and Interpol are notified, he said.

Less than 10 countries perform systematic screening travel documents that matched the Interpol database. More than one billion times last year people get on the plane with the data that is not matched with the Interpol database last, according to the international police organization.

"The airlines will no longer have to rely on countries that filter the passport to make the passengers safe from terrorists and other criminals who use stolen passports to board the plane. Such AirAsia, they will be able to do it alone," said Noble.

Malaysia police say that two men wearing stolen passports traveling with Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was Iranians who want to migrate illegally to Europe and they are not terrorists.

Boeing 777 with 239 people on board the flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8 when it disappeared. The Malaysian government says it is the position of the last aircraft in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia. But this plane has yet to be found. (AP) / VOA