{"id":98881364,"date":"2010-10-27T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/british-airways-head-criticizes-american-airport-security\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:13:24","slug":"british-airways-head-criticizes-american-airport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/british-airways-head-criticizes-american-airport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Head Criticizes American Airport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/british-airways-ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Airways<\/a> chairman argued in an industry conference that the airline should stop \u201ckowtowing\u201d to American security demands like making passengers take off their shoes and remove laptops from carry-on bags.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday night at the UK Airport Operations conference, Martin Broughton said that certain security checks by Americans are \u201ccompletely redundant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chairman also criticized the United States for mandating intense security on inbound <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/international\">international flights<\/a> than they do for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/domestic\">U.S. domestic travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica does not do internally a lot of the things they demand that we do,\u201d the chairman said. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t stand for that. We should say, \u2018We\u2019ll only do things which we consider to be essential and that you Americans also consider essential.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other executives in the industry were quick to support the BA executive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will no doubt be widespread agreement,\u201d the Board of Airline Rep head in the UK said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/BUSINESS\/10\/27\/uk.airline.security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> CNN <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways chairman argued in an industry conference that the airline should stop \u201ckowtowing\u201d to American security demands like making passengers take off their shoes and remove laptops from carry-on bags. &nbsp; Monday night at the UK Airport Operations conference, Martin Broughton said that certain security checks by Americans are \u201ccompletely redundant.\u201d &nbsp; The chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98909473,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881364\/revisions\/98909473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}