IATA CHIEF CALLS FOR SECURITY OVERHALL BASED ON PASSENGER PROFILING
December 1st, 2010
BY DANIEL PRUZIN
THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.
In an interview with Jane's Airports Review, IATA Director General Giovanni Bisignani said the current chaotic scenes at security checkpoints will hopefully fade to a bad memory in the not too distant future.
"When see images of hundreds of people queuing in an uncoordinated way ...
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