In order to be able to better understand the travel routes of criminals and terrorists, the Federal Council proposes an amendment to the Aviation Security Act. The Federal Ministry of the Interior welcomes the initiative.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior supports plans to make it mandatory to check the identity of passengers before air travel.
The Ministry welcomes the Federal Council’s initiative and supports “the introduction of a mandatory comparison of personal details on the boarding pass with an identity document,” said a spokesman for the German Press Agency on request.
On February 11, the Bundesrat decided, on the initiative of Lower Saxony, to submit an amendment to the Aviation Security Act to the Bundestag. The proposal stipulates that air carriers must carry out a comparison of ID and boarding pass before departure. The main reason for this is that the security authorities have difficulties in tracing the travel routes of criminals and terrorists. In the past legislative period, an identical draft had already gone to the Bundestag, which had not finally discussed it at the time.
From the point of view of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, however, before the Aviation Security Act can be changed, it would first have to be clarified whether the comparison of boarding pass and ID should only take place shortly before boarding the aircraft, i.e. at the gate, or already at the central passenger and hand luggage checkpoint.
Many airlines are already voluntarily comparing the data in their own economic interest or are obliged to do so due to the applicable legal situation in other countries, the spokesman said. “With the alignment, added value in terms of security in terms of countering terrorism and serious crime can be expected,” he added.
Source: Stern
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