A POLITICIAN has warned that airline passengers will be able to fly into Glasgow Airport from remote areas without any security checks.
Two MPs say plans to stop bag and body searches of people boarding planes at Tiree, Barra and Campbeltown is a “step in the wrong direction to be relaxing security”.
They have spoken to Highlands and Islands airport’s managing director Inglis Lyon, days after the Prospect trade union, which represents baggage handlers, warned the move could leave Hunterston nuclear power station vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil, who raised the issue with colleague for Argyll, Brendan O’Hara, said: “This decision has been taken in association with Transport Scotland, The Department for Transport at Westminster, The Civil Aviation Authority and Loganair. It is disappointing and it is a step in the wrong direction to be relaxing security.
“This is an unnecessary relaxation of a system that works well. We will now have the situation where you can fly into Glasgow International Airport without prior security checks.
“I will be in contact with Transport Scotland and the Department for Transport to raise a number of concerns”
HIAL is to stop screening passengers and bags at the airports from the end of the month, but said they will still pass security at Glasgow.
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