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#19573 by AlanA
03 Jun 2007, 15:43
It seems that an undercover expose has been carried out by the ITV "Tonight with Trevor Macdonald" programme on the very poor security at Birmingham, with a US congressman already calling for all flights to the USA from BHX to be temporarily suspended until security is beefed up.
#173577 by MarkJ
03 Jun 2007, 15:58
Will be interesting to see this as I use BHX quite a bit. Personally I never felt that there were any lapses - in fact they were one of the airports using the security gate/boarding gate photo ID process which people complained about.

With the local ethnic population in the area there are a number of flights to/from Pakistan, India etc and I would have thought that they would be more careful?
#173599 by p17blo
03 Jun 2007, 18:54
Well there definitely is not the same presence from police and security personnel (as there is in say LHR or LGW) but I too use BHX once in a while (and just a couple of weeks ago) and I don't remember thinking security was lacking.

I will watch the program with interest as I am off through BHX again in July.

Paul
#173602 by AlanA
03 Jun 2007, 19:15
I am off through there next sunday.
I just hope it does not make them over zealeous! [:(!]
#173615 by MarkJ
03 Jun 2007, 20:14
Originally posted by AlanA
I am off through there next sunday.
I just hope it does not make them over zealeous! [:(!]


Well they probably already have your card marked Alan!! And after the programme full "internal" rubber glove searches are bound to become the norm[:I]
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