Cathay Pacific CEO calls for airport security consistency

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The CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways, Tony Tyler, is calling for the aviation industry to make aviation security processes more efficient and consistent in order to make travel easier for the millions of air travellers that are the industry’s lifeblood.

In comments he made at the International Aviation Security Conference, Tyler said that Cathay Pacific supports the effort, led by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), to speed up the harmonization of aviation security standards through the implementation of one-stop security.

“The airline industry has been trying to achieve this since 1997 but progress has been painfully slow and sporadic,” he noted.

Tyler stressed that this was not a call to relax security, “but I strongly believe we have to make a greater effort to tackle some of the long-standing issues that make the security process more difficult and more costly than it should be. I have lost count of the number of times customers have complained to me about the ambiguities and lack of consistency they encounter in security requirements in the world’s airports.”

He went on to say: “Some airports require you to take out your laptop, others don’t; some make you remove your shoes, others don’t; some want you to take off your belt; others don’t. What kind of message does that send to passengers?”

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