Airport security of future: keeping your shoes on
Imagine keeping your shoes on as you pass through the airport’s security line. Also, your bag stays in your hand complete with nail clippers and laptops.
Then consider you will have one of three color-coded security lines: either frequent travelers, normal or for those thought to require more checking.
That’s the airline industry vision of the future for security, on display at the Aviation Security World Conference in Amsterdam, according to BostonGlobe.com.
“People do not have to empty their pockets, remove any of their clothing or subject themselves to pat-downs before walking through a 20-foot tunnel that scans metals, liquids, laptops and other potential dangers one by one,” says the Globe quoting convention members.
Security spends too much time on the 99.9 percent who mean no harm, when threat detection surely should be focused on those with greater potential to do damage, said IATA chief Tony Tyler.
"By making our checkpoints smarter, and using 'known traveller' programs, we can give everybody a baseline level of security … and in the end get everybody through security much faster," he added.
He said the "risk-based approach" is not the same as profiling, since it does not use ethnic or religious data.
It relies partly on pre-flight information submitted by passengers, partly on biometric scans and data stored in passports, and partly on human observers who would have the discretion to choose a more rigorous scan for someone acting suspiciously.
US Transport Security Authority chief John Pistole said the checkpoint of the future idea parallels the TSA's own new emphasis on "risk-based security".
By David Wilkening
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