AOA welcome ID plan but BAR don't
06.03.08
The Airport Operators Association (AOA) has welcomed an announcement from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that National ID cards will be trialled by airside workers at UK airports from 2009. However the airline body BAR UK has condemned the move as 'wasteful and costly'.
Airport workers are to be the first UK citizens to be given identity cards under plans announced by Ms Smith today. A Whitehall document leaked in January said airport workers will be the first to receive ID cards in 2009. BAA says it has already had exploratory talks with the government on the proposal.
Chairman of the AOA (and Liverpool Airport CEO), Neil Pakey, said: ‘We welcome the opportunity to work with the Government in exploring the possibility of issuing ID cards to airside staff. They have the potential to strengthen what is already a robust aviation security scheme.'
But the plans have been condemned as 'wasteful and costly' by BAR UK, which represents more than 90 scheduled airlines. It said that the scheme would not produce any significant return as thousands of staff working airside at UK airports - the area beyond passenger security barriers and on aircraft aprons - are already required to have airport ID cards.
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