It is therefore urgent to ensure that all air carriers and regulatory authorities are immediately aware of the issues and can take action that they see fit to mitigate the actual safety risk to their passengers and aircraft
Whoa there, runaway steed. And what 'actions' may they be? And how will they 'mitigate risks'?
The whole problem is that nobody knows what the 'right actions' may be. The cockpit door policy post 9-11 was not fully thought through, as we can all see. (Some of us did warn the authorities.) So why rush in with new proposals, when these new ideas are equally fraught with unintended consequences? See my post here.
(A reply to my post.)
http://www.pprune.org/8924209-post2552.html
And nobody has replied to my primary question yet.
Would you want a nuclear power plant to recruit anyone from the streets, give them a few weeks training, and then place them in charge of the nuclear power plant's control room? And give them full authority to overpower the power station's highly trained controllers, whenever they feel like it?
That is what the CAA and various airlines are proposing. Is this sensible? Has anyone thought this through?