Airline Seals: Securing the future of air travel

The aviation industry is an important element of world trade and logistics.

Many manufacturers rely on airlines daily to get their products and people where they need to be. This has dramatically changed as the Coronavirus has raged on across the globe and restrictions and regulations have had to be responded to. Over the years, there has been a significant shift in the use of security seals on aircrafts and flights. Used predominantly as an identifier and signaller of the tampering of goods, there is much more demanded of their application. Now, airlines are utilizing security seals for health and safety (in response to COVID-19), aircraft threats and tracing luggage through the transport chain.

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON AIRLINES

Since the beginning of 2020, more and more countries across the globe shut down borders and limit domestic travel as a response to the coronavirus outbreak. Aviation is of huge strategic and economic importance to the UK and the sudden and almost complete shutdown of passenger air travel due to COVID-19 had a severe economic impact on airlines, airports and air freight.

AIRCRAFT SECURITY SEAL SOLUTIONS:

AIRCRAFT DOORS

Aircraft doors should be sealed whilst unattended to ensure that no unapproved personnel his given easy access whilst the flight is ongoing. Aircraft Seals can help to notify staff when an object or door has been tampered with. The Springlock Seal is sturdy seal that offers quick application and hand removal. They can be easily applied to the Aircraft door lock and cannot be reapplied once they are removed, thus giving a clear indicator of tampering for in-flight staff.

No Residue Security Labels are a lower-grade seal that can be used to seal the seam of the overhead luggage compartments whilst the aircraft is in-flight. After a passenger has placed their luggage in the overhead compartments, staff can simply place a label over the seam of the door so that passengers are aware that their luggage has not been handled by somebody else at some point during travel.

ONBOARD CONTAINERS

Air cargo is subject to rugged handling, logistics movements, in-flight turbulence, and more. Choosing the right security seal for the right object is therefore critical to ensuring safe handling but easy access in-flight. With sanitation concerns ever-present, it is critical that the staff and passengers are assured that the food and drink that they will be consuming on their flight has not been accessed since its preparation. A simple pull tight Skyseal can be applied to the trolley handle by approved staff once the trolley has been loaded onto the aircraft. This can then be safely removed by hand once its contents are ready to be issued out to the passengers. Plastic security seals are often used on food & beverage carts, duty-free trolleys, hatches, life jackets, fire extinguishers, tote boxes, medical boxes, and cabinets.