Transport committee  Again, I understand your question. The total risk assessment with our—

Transport committee  The question is a fair question. It's a wonderful question. The fact that the cockpit doors should stay locked is not disputable. The protocols should be such that any threat that happens before the doors shouldn't enable a stewardess or any member of the crew to open the doors

Transport committee  Please let me finish. But having said that, if we analyze that scissors or glasses or whatever would enable someone to overcome this kind of a protocol, the protocol should be changed.

Transport committee  My answer is very simple. We are a commercial security provider. We are providing compliance with the requirements of the regulator, of the government. If the government decides that we have to take off whatever item there is, then we will take it off. This has to be monitored an

Transport committee  It is, again, the process of the threat assessment. How possible is it, wherever you're doing this assessment, that this threat may happen? It happened in Russia. It happened in Glasgow. In Glasgow, a car full of explosives was driven into the terminal and exploded. I forget the

Transport committee  I have to admit that I don't remember.

Transport committee  Well, it was not prior to 9/11--

Transport committee  --and then there were steel doors and locked doors.

Transport committee  I could try.

Transport committee  I think we have to look back into the history. Most of the happenings in the North American market for commercial aviation security are a result of the 9/11 era. Prior to 9/11 in North America, commercial aviation security was perceived as having one of the lower levels of risk

Transport committee  We have to go two steps back before addressing the issue of the scissors. First of all, aviation is a global product, and it does not matter what a certain country, airline, or airport perceives as a risk. In order to harmonize, there has to be a global understanding about what c

Transport committee  It is identical in 95% of the world. There are still local requirements that allow a little bit more or a little bit less, but for most of the international travel in the west, the requirements are the same. I don't know what happens in China or in other places of the world, I re

Transport committee  Whole-body scanners or whole-body screening is a new technology that has been developed in order to mitigate additional risks that the walk-through metal detectors we have worldwide do not indicate on passengers. For instance, a knife that is made not from metal but from other in

Transport committee  This is an easy one. We are a private security company, and air marshals, as far as we are involved, are still a law enforcement task. Only government and governmental entities are allowed to bring weapons on board airplanes. This is a task that, according to the threat analysis

Transport committee  The question is more, I would say, if I may, what the risk is that you want to mitigate with this solution. If you anticipate that you will have a hijacker on board who will bypass all of the security regimes installed in all the airports, that those security people will not iden