Posted By SAF Suitable and Sufficent given the recent events?

Posted By John Webster Pete Each terminal has only one security/search area irrespective of where the flights are going. Passengers then freely mingle in a common departures area. Passenger can also transit flights without going back through security. So everyone has to be checked. OK, for the future it may make more sense to decentralise security checks and move the process nearer to the boarding points, but that can't happen overnight.

Posted By John Webster Customs seem to use profiling quite successfully; as a businessman with no luggage on a predominantly holiday flight I remember getting virtually everything short of the dreaded rubber glove! Unfortunately, profiling for Islamic terrorists would create a form of airport apartheid - black, white, Sikhs and orientals pass through, other Asians get the full treatment - after all, Buddhist and Christian Asians look like Muslims. Somehow I don't see that as being fair to the vast majority of decent Asians, Muslim or otherwise, and is bound to provoke a backlash.