UK cautious on US demands for enhanced security
The UK has given a noncommittal response to US demands that security on US-bound flights be stepped up in the face of mounting terrorist threats to civil aviation. It follows comments by US homeland security secretary John Kelly June 28 that he would be demanding enhanced security procedures at all airports from which flights departed for the US. The UK-US transatlantic link is one of the most heavily trafficked routes in the world, with dozens of flights each day. Asked whether it would be implementing enhanced security at UK airports for US flights and whether those higher standards would become the “default setting” for all UK-originating flights, the Department for Transport said: “It is for the US to determine its own security measures based on its own assessments, just as we do ourselves." <br/>
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UK cautious on US demands for enhanced security
The UK has given a noncommittal response to US demands that security on US-bound flights be stepped up in the face of mounting terrorist threats to civil aviation. It follows comments by US homeland security secretary John Kelly June 28 that he would be demanding enhanced security procedures at all airports from which flights departed for the US. The UK-US transatlantic link is one of the most heavily trafficked routes in the world, with dozens of flights each day. Asked whether it would be implementing enhanced security at UK airports for US flights and whether those higher standards would become the “default setting” for all UK-originating flights, the Department for Transport said: “It is for the US to determine its own security measures based on its own assessments, just as we do ourselves." <br/>
