Code 89 - quite correct - in fact the spend on "security" is used as the justification for uplifts in the pax movement charges and the proposed 'infrastructure' fund.
As we all know airside access is far from sterile and the systems offer little by way of integrity, common standards and deliver nothing more than window dressing.
For instance last week (yet again) I walked airside onto the apron and through the back of house area at Y*** as did others. No check of ASIC, no screening, no nothing.
This is everyday aviation at one of the nation's capital city airports!
[Oh........ and before the believers in the system respond yes it was reported - result nil action]
Whole body scanning is a waste of money and given the lack of consultation, information and knowledge, for Aircrew subjected to regular exposures it may well be aviation's version of thalidamide.
The only weapons of terror whole body scanners will reveal are those strategic and under utilised sections of some
State OHS Acts to which the 'requirement to submit' under the whole body scanning procedure is wholly subordinate.
Pprune Prediction:
introduction will be delayed until after the transition of State OHS Acts to the proposed Federal Act in 2012.
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