This hi-tech revolution is taking place at security checkpoints before boarding at Terminal One in Fiumucino and is quicker and easier than ever.
Thanks to a technology that performs a real CT scan, passengers can now carry liquids, even larger than 100 ml in their hand luggage, as well as computers, tablets, and mobile phones without having to remove and separate them from their suitcases.
The new technology, introduced last year for frequent travelers, is now extended to all passengers departing from Terminal 1, which hosts about 70% of departures from Fiumicino in Italy.
The installation of the revolutionary C3 standard Explosive Detection System hand baggage screening equipment by Smiths Detection – a security and threat detection technology company – is completed after a period of testing.
This is the highest security standard for hand luggage screening.
It will increase the level of security and further enhance the passenger experience. The new machines, which use X-ray scanners to obtain a computer tomography of the baggage, are now producing high-resolution 3D volumetric images with automatic detection of potentially dangerous substances, making it even more effective and faster for security screening staff to analyze them.
Installation of the new technology is now underway at Terminal 3 security checkpoints and will be completed within the year, with the exception of flights bound for the USA and Israel, which are subject to specific screening procedures.
Ivan Bassato, Chief Aviation Officer of Aeroporti di Roma, said: “The installation of new technologies with a view to smart security aims at making passengers’ experience at the security gate even more effective and streamlined, also confirming that our approach to service quality cannot disregard innovation, an enabling factor of ADR’s industrial strategy. The investment in the new C3 machines for hand luggage screening – together with the revolutionary QPass system for booking appointments at the security checkpoints and the GRASP’s sensor system for dynamically directing passengers to the lane of fastest service – represents a further step in our path and is part of the broader panel of innovation projects that Aeroporti di Roma is implementing to design the airport of the future.”
