Automatic Baggage Checking at Indira Gandhi International Airport

As we all know that , Indira Gandhi International Airport is under renovation. We hope that soon inconvenience faced by the passengers will end. To start with, a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the airport developer of the Delhi airport, told IANS that trial runs for an ‘inline baggage system’ have begun that would not only enable baggage to get checked and assigned automatically while passengers wait for their boarding passes but also do away with x-rays.

“This would ease overcrowding at the manual x-ray machines,” the official said, adding that the new system was expected to bring respite to passengers.

“Once we have the two rows for inline baggage system by July 1 and six others in the next three weeks, passengers can directly walk to the check-in counter and receive their boarding pass while the baggage gets checked and assigned automatically,” he explained.

The inline baggage system is a combination of conveyor belts, bar code readers and inline baggage sorters. The passenger also need not stand in a separate queue for X-ray screening of bags before checking in.When the passenger deposits his baggage at the check-in counter, a modular system weighs and transports the luggage to a conveyor belt. Once the baggage is assigned a position, it proceeds to a security checkpoint.

thats great news!! soon passengers will not have to spend hours in getting their baggage checked. lets hope the system funtions well. i m keeping my fingers crossed.