Air industry attacks airport security frenzy...

Asian airlines and European airport operators have attacked new security measures imposed after the botched Detroit bombing attempt as an ill-judged “operational nightmare” costing €50,000 a week.

“We understand these measures are needed as a response to an immediate threat but clearly they are not sustainable in the medium term,” said Olivier Jankovec, director-general of the Airports Council International, Europe, in an interview with the Financial Times. “They are an operational nightmare.”

The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, which represents carriers such as Qantas of Australia and Japan Airlines, said it would be a “tragedy” if high public confidence in the safety of air travel was “undermined by ill-judged, reactionary measures”. More...

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