Relax air security or we'll sue, Ryanair warns
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Posted on 08/18/2006 6:05:50 AM PDT by vimto
Ryanair today issued the Government with a seven-day ultimatum to relax airport security measures or risk being sued for compensation.
The request for a return to usual security was made by the Irish no-frills airline to Douglas Alexander, the Transport Secretary. Security at airports was heightened after an alleged bomb plot was uncovered to blow up passenger jets bound from Britain to the United States using liquid chemical explosives smuggled aboard in hand luggage.
Ryanair said that if security was restored to "normal" International Air Transport Association (IATA) levels within the next seven days then the airline would "not make any claim for compensation which it is entitled to under the provision of section 93 of the Transport Act 2000".
Michael O’Leary, the Ryanair chief executive, said today: "The best way to defeat terrorists and extremists is for ordinary people to continue to live their lives as normal. Because of the additional security restrictions imposed by the Government last Thursday, the shambles at the London airports has been anything but normal.
"The UK Government successfully led the return to normality of the London Underground within two days of the July 7 terrorist attacks. It is important that they now restore security at the London airports to normality and remove some of these nonsensical, and (from a security perspective) totally ineffective restrictions which were introduced last week.
"If they don’t, and if they allow these restrictions to stay in place, then the Government will have handed the extremists an enormous PR victory."
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All evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Oh, I agree totally. The guy may have screw loose, though.
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