At the company I work for we dont have airside ID cards, only a company ID - (we are not based from an airport, as we are a leasing company)
However, I show up at any airport show my company ID and then go airside - now and then I also have to show my licence but it's no headache.
So, would airlines be able to just stop requiring their employees to obtain an airport airside pass - and just issue a company ID instead?
PT6
Simple answer - NO!
It is a Department For Transport (DFT) stipulation that all employees who are based at an airport must have an airside pass if they require access to work in airside areas. Airlines or any other companies who operate airside would not be exempt from this.
Even if this was not the case, a visitor pass would require you to be escorted at all times. It would also render the current criminal disclosure check redundant, as anyone with a conviction could get around this by just obtaining a day pass all the time.
spannersatKL: Also by making it a 'civil' offence (is there such a thing) they are in fact putting you at a disadvantage.......you will be unable to have your day in court as you would if this were a normal criminal offence....with associated press interest etc...all that would be affected if you don't pay is your name goes on credit black lists, county court judgement against you etc and the Baillifs might turn up, you will then have an inability to get a Mortgage etc.....
Bascially they are a doing it this way as they are afraid of doing the job properly.........not even the Stazi would have done it this way!!!
One day Gordon/Jacqui (can't spell your name properly can you), one day the people of this country will wake up to your nasty regime
spannersatKL, I see you are fully up to speed with the programme!
Thankfully, we all seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet. The big problem though is revealed in your last sentence; "one day people of this country will wake up"
By the time the public awake from their slumber and there really is a big outcry over the many pitfalls: the enormous cost £5.4 billion and rising, the expense to the individual, nuisance of having to update all your information for the rest of your life under the threat of financial penalty , ease of cloning, theft, loss of data, people losing the card and being fined etc. Most importantly, the vast intrusion into our lives and the loss of civil liberties.
IT WILL BE TOO LATE. You will need the card for literally everything, you will not be able to function without it - fait de compli.