World: Aviation security needs to be stepped up, echo industry executives

The boss of Emirates Airline, the world’s largest international airline, Thursday said recent attacks on commercial aviation show security structures to protect the flying public are insufficient. “In my view we are not doing enough. We have had so many wake-up calls in the last couple of years, it is clear we have to do a lot better than we have been doing,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said. Commercial aviation has been hit by a series of terror attacks. A Russian jetliner departing Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh airport was downed last October in a suspected bombing killing all 224 people onboard. An explosive also was smuggled onto a Daallo flight departing Mogadishu, killing the suspected bomber. And on March 22, two bombs detonated at Brussels Airport killing 16 people. The view that security isn’t tight enough was echoed by THAI CE Charamporn Jotikasthira. “We still need to improve over time. No change is not an option,” he said, Bernard Gustin, chief executive of Brussels Airlines whose hub airport was hit by the attack almost little more than two months ago said terrorists need to be stopped before they reached the airport. “It’s with the intelligence systems that it needs to be solved,” he said.<br/>