Airport Security Essay

Security measures designed to protect passenger safety are often criticized for being invasive and violating privacy. Passengers complain about the fact that transportation security goes to far when it comes to searching them, but what they fail to realize is that it is for their own safety in the airport and on an airplane. Airport passengers are quick to say that their privacy is violated with the pat downs, body scans and secondary screenings, but when an incident occurs within an airport or in the air on an airplane they are quick to blame security for not doing the job right. Frequent fliers are accustomed to having to go through thorough screenings while not so frequent fliers are ready to blame the airport security for all matters such as delays, and many other things. Frequent fliers also understand that the work done by the security is not only skin deep and goes as far as mandatory trainings, while others think that everything that they do is all fictive and not part of protocol.
The purpose of this research is to compare the methods used, to insure passenger safety, at Zvartnots International Airport with those of other airports in countries with similar …show more content…
Preliminary security checkpoint of all vehicles before entering the airport compound, armed guards spot checking all vehicles entering: DXB does not have such measures in place as firstly the security threat to the airport is not as significant as Tel Aviv; it is intrusive to the tourist passengers who are the main source of business to Dubai. Also ammunition entering and exiting the country is strictly controlled by the customs authorities and Transguard services .Therefore, the probability of a common man attacking the airport with personal arms or MANPADS is quite low. However, as seen in the ‘parking lot’ bombing incidents, DXB should implement an additional security measure at the parking token issuing counter so that the vulnerability posed by an airport in the heart of the city is