Frequent fliers who face morose officials, long queues, intrusive probing and the prospect of their travel plans blowing up in the face of officious immigration bureaucrats might soon shave a few minutes off this experience at OR Tambo International Airport.Airports Company SA (Acsa) wants to halve the average time spent in airport security lines. This comes as the business sector closely watches the effect congestion at SA’s busiest airport has on the bottom line, and at a time of some turbulence at Acsa itself.OR Tambo general manager Bongiwe Pityi says Acsa is piloting the use of full body scanners until January, as well as carousel scanning for luggage that is similar to the carousels from which passengers collect their belongings post-flight."The international waiting time in terms of airport security is 10 minutes," says Pityi. "At all our company-owned airports we adopted a five-minute waiting time, [and] with this technology we hope to meet that."The system will mean metal d...
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