AirAsia Receives Liveried Aircraft for Interpol I-Checkit System

Interpol, the global police body and AirAsia further extend their partnership to promote global crime awareness campaign with the delivery of a specially liveried aircraft.

The aircraft, which was specially designed to promote a global crime awareness campaign, arrived in Kuala Lumpur.  In June, AirAsia became the first airline to pilot Interpol’s I-Checkit system, which screens passports of its prospective passengers against Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database.

AirAsia is the first airline in the world to collaborate with Interpol to implement the system. With the formalisation of the partnership, AirAsia will screen all of its passengers at all the airports that it operates in using the integrated system, except for passengers using KLIA2.

According to AirAsia, the checks have already led to the detection of almost 50 individuals who had tried to travel with fraudulent documents.

The special “Turn Back Crime” aircraft livery took six days to complete and would carry the important message against crime in the 23 countries within the AirAsia network.

Executive director of the campaign, Roraima Andriani, said she hoped AirAsia’s innovative approach would inspire others to identify new and exciting ways to help “turn back crime”.