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Sydney airport chief critical of security plan
The head of the Sydney Airport Corporation (SACL) says security at domestic airports would not be improved by only allowing ticket holders into departure terminals.
The Federal Department of Transport is reportedly considering the move under new anti-terrorism plans.
But SACL chief executive Max Moore-Wilton says airports would have to radically changed their structure to accommodate the plan.
He says security would not be improved because it would not necessarily stop anyone who posed a threat from boarding an aircraft.
"At the moment when you catch a domestic aircraft once you've purchased your ticket you can give it to anybody because it's not the same as going out internationally, you've got no passports, you're not actually checked. So that implies a whole new regime of checking," he said.
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