Re: Nice to see...
I'll count my blessings one by one.
Given the shameless shambles that BAA has made of T5 (and I ain't ranting on that all over again), I don't hold out any hope for BAA - but at least the Airlines are waking up to a reality that the Reg readers have noticed ages ago.
However, their real motivation is with the increased costs of fuel and general crappiness of the economy; the airlines don't want any extra barriers to travel shoved in the way of the punters.
Simply attacking the ID-card scheme is missing the point.
What they should do is a root-and-branch analysis of what "real" security has been gained from the various new procedures that have been added over the last 5-10 years. What is the trade-off? How much of it is theatre? What risk was being addressed and has that risk been mitigated by the action etc...
It could be argued that having all passengers travelling in the nude with nothing but their travel documents under the all-seeing eyes of CCTV and Armed troops, would save us all... We can buy all our clothes in the Duty Free...