In an interview with the Financial Times, British Airways chairman Martin Broughton has accused Britain of “kowtowing” to the United States in implementing “completely redundant” airport security checks.
Practices such as asking passengers to remove their shoes should be “abandoned” he suggested, while also questioning why laptop computers are scanned separately.
Mr Broughton also noted American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal flights.
“America does not do internally a lot of the things they demand that we do. We shouldn’t stand for that. We should say ‘we’ll only do things which we consider to be essential and that you Americans also consider essential,” Mr Broughton added in the Financial Times.
Lack of consistency is one of Mr. Broughton's main concerns,"Take the iPad, they still haven’t decided if it is a laptop or it isn’t a laptop. So some airports think you should take it out and some think you shouldn’t.”
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