AIRPORT SECURITY

Airport Security

Airport Security

Introduction

The study focuses on the important security characteristics of the aviation industry as this is one of the most important factors that affect the performance in terms of its customer protection as well as preventing acts of terrorism. Moreover, the study particularly focuses on the some important aspects of airline security which are imperative and crucial to study and how airlines are likely to be affected in coming years.Discussion of the Participant Responses

After the events of 11 September 2001 Council Regulation (EC) was introduced 2320/2002. So it should be impossible for terrorists by new security measures to enter into an airplane. For example, one divides Airports certain security areas whose access is strictly controlled. Even the screening of passengers and hand luggage has been strengthened and the minimum equipment requirements were precisely controlled. In addition, Member States and airports are obliged to create your own security programs. In Germany, the aviation security measures are regulated by federal law. Since the 15th January 2005 a special Aviation Security Act (Aviation Security).

In the late sixties increasingly international hijackings vorfielen, urged the Federal Government for preventive measures. A legal basis, there were at that time but not yet. The Landshut hijacking in 1977 increased awareness of aviation security and led some years later to the law of civil aviation. The law said that the control of passengers and luggage must be carried out by the countries who have to bear most of the costs. The main components of these checks may not be outsourced to private companies to ensure high standards and exclude price competition. Since 1980, all passengers and all baggage will be screened or searched. After the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the proportion of controlled baggage was continuously increased and the end of 2002 the checked baggage ...