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Joined: 05 Nov 2003
Posts: 814
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:37 pm Post Subject: Latest Terror alerts paves way for 'Registered Travelers'?
I could see this one coming a mile off. Registered Travellers schemes allow passengers to bypass much of the hassle at Airport Security. And how nice of them to let people pay for submitting to background checks and collection of their biometric data...
British Airways to adopt N.Y. biometric screening:
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British Airways said Thursday that it would sponsor a new biometric screening system this autumn at Terminal 7 of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, enabling potentially thousands of trans- Atlantic travelers to significantly shorten their wait at security checkpoints.
The system, which replicates the Registered Traveler pilot program currently used by 27,000 air travelers at Orlando International Airport in Florida, allows passengers, for an annual fee of $80, to breeze through airport security and immigration controls in exchange for providing certain personal information as well as fingerprint and iris scans.
"We hope that this gives our customers a more predictable and more convenient process through security," said Lisa Lam, a British Airways spokeswoman.
The biometric screening program is operated by Clear Registered Traveler, a unit of Verified Identity Pass, a company founded by the journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill...
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 173
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:36 am Post Subject: dont travel
Just don't Travel, Thats an easy way to fix this problem. See how much pressure does on goverments to stop there nazi ways from airports and airlines (there fuel providers) when flyer numbers go down and they start to go broke :twisted: .
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
Posts: 814
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:59 am Post Subject:
Unfortunately satanzhand, for many people, air travel is a necessary reality, particularly in business. It's a lot harder to make conscientious protests of that kind if your livelihood depends on it...
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 173
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:32 pm Post Subject: yes
I agree that its not possible to stop all air travel, but the cool thing is you dont have to stop all air travel.
If overall people stopped travelling only 10% it would really hurt the industry and it would demand attention. If travel dropped by 30% companies would start going bust!
these companies have massive overheads, and even 3% drops in overall cashflow can cause troubles
