As much as cheaptravel options such as cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packagesencourage people to travel, many are frustrated by long lines at airportsecurity checkpoints.
A new bag scanning system (The Qylatron Entry ExperienceSolution) was used at the World Cup and in the future could help airport reducewaiting times. This is a honeycomb-shaped machine that can scan up to five bagsat a time and is able to detect a variety of threats, including explosives,weapons, and chemicals.
What makes this machine particularly attractive is that iteliminates the need for security personnel to look inside bags or carry outmanual baggage checks.
It was used to check bags in advance of matches at the 43,000plus capacity Arena de Baixada Stadium in the southern city of Curitiba. Bags were placed inside these machines andcollected at the opposite end. When athreat was detected the pod turned red and a security officer was alerted. Otherwise it turned green and the fan couldproceed with his or her bag.
The manufacturer of this machine believes that after moretests and tweaking to the system, that this device could be used at airportsecurity checkpoints. Soccer fans atthe World Cup reported no problem with this machine which was designed topreserve human liberty while offering the most advanced security screeningtechnology in the industry.
The Qylatron screening system, according to its manufacturerscans significantly more people than current airport checkpoint lanes, andalso offers a drastic reduction in operating costs coupled with higherthreat-envelope screening.
A major advantage of this system is that passengers would nolonger have to unload personal items, such as clothing and laptops, while goingthrough security. By not having to takeoff/take out such items passenger flow could increase, lowering overalloperating costs, and provide a marked improvement in the passenger securityexperience.
Studies have found that current airport security measures areincreasingly being challenged by travelers and security experts alike. The fundamental question is whether airportsecurity is really effective. A polllast year of over 3,000 readers of Telegraph Travel found that 84 percentthought that airport security measures did not make them feel any safer.
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