"Sydney airport chief critical of security plan"

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Sydney airport chief critical of security plan
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation


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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