Brussels airport explosion

Indeed, I just don't like knee jerk reactions to an event that doesn't have any or little evidence to its cause. We've all seen how these things spiral out of control quickly and the bad feelings it leaves on forums.

Anyway, all friends again

It is difficult and something we should try and maintain though. As long as we don't go down the daily hate mail route of lumping all immigrants into the one pot and blaming them for these actions carried out by the very small minorities.

Yeah its the same at both terminals I think from memory. I just used to think of it as yet one more queue out of several when going through that airport. How effective the x-ray and scanner operators are though is another matter.

They're good at finding bullets.

How does that help you just relocate the crowds outdoors in the rain lol cheaper on infrastructure but more likely just displaced to another soft target

Without giving it much thought, all the baggage goes on a conveyor behind a 30/40 ft long block wall..Behind the wall are trained sniffer dogs and handlers..Any suspect baggage to be X ray`d before entering terminal.

Why not just apply proper (non PC) profiling to people walking into the terminal.
Of course the security industry would rather take the opportunity to lobby for many more gazillion quid.

The next "extremist attrocity" could be on a bus, a train, or the big dipper in Blackpool pleasure beach.

All hold and cabin baggage is X-Rayed as soon as you enter the departures terminal of any airport in the Philippines and all passengers checked. In some cases belts and shoes must be removed and all metallic objects and cellphones have also to pass through the X-Ray scanner. NAIA's well-publicised concealed bullet scam did not take place at this screening incidentally.

The big problem here is the technology used to scan passengers. If you pass through the security checkpoint and then turn around and watch as others follow, many of them will trigger the (silent) alarm but the security guard "pat down" is often far too cursory and in some cases isn't being done. Kids in buggies are almost never checked, as I have discovered on several occasions.

I would agree you can put resources and systems into making say airports less attractive but folk willing to die with a vest is harder and there are so many soft targets in a city its a bit like a dyke and you run out of fingers

I have a fair bit of experience with Evacuation Planning and recently Ive been appaled with the lack of resiliance im seeing even for just fire most are generic cut and paste with no really trained personal behind them tick box exersizes