Check out our latest news, announcements and insights on the aviation security and passenger facilitation markets.
A major review of the EU’s Directive on Advance Passenger Information, or API, is currently underway, which may considerably affect the way airlines and authorities operate. Hannah Evans, Intern Consultant at LAM LHA, outlines how API data collection could be reformed and the potential impact on air carriers.
This week major US news outlets covered TSA’s introduction of biometrics at checkpoint. This biometric application is being added to TSA’s Credential Authentication Technology (CAT), which for non-AVSEC junkies is the machine you put your driver’s license into when you approach the TSA checkpoint.
The final contribution from the AI bot, ChatGPT, to our mini-series of AVSEC articles, concerns the planned implementation of the EES (Entry Exit System) in the European Union; ChatGPT gives us the top 5 facts that non-EU citizens should familiarize themselves with.
Testing and evaluation of security tech is enormously important from a compliance standpoint as well as ensuring that operations are efficient. Here, ChatGPT provides the lowdown on how T & E can be optimized.
Security innovation in aviation is at the heart of what we do at LAM LHA; with a little help from ChatGPT, here is a recap of some of what AI sees as the significant changes in security tech and processes over the last few years.
A second article from the bot, who summarizes quite nicely 9/11 and other key events which have shaped AVSEC and passenger travel as we know it.
The aviation security market is a critical component of the global aviation industry, aimed at ensuring the safety and security of passengers, personnel, and assets associated with air travel.
The past years have seen several delays to the entry into operation of the European Union’s Entry/Exit System (EES).
I had the pleasure of recently conducting a panel on risk-based security and the removal of the LAGS ban in the UK, with esteemed aviation security colleagues (Matthew Vaughan, IATA; Wendy Reiter, SEA; Peter Drissell, UK CAA; Leen van Duijn, KLM; Ken Mann, Rapiscan) at Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) in the Netherlands.
Since the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, over 330,000 students across the United States have experienced gun violence in their schools.
From June 2020 to June 2021, the U.S. transportation industry experienced a 186 percent increase in weekly ransomware attacks.
Lorries queueing for miles on end at Dover awaiting their turn to board the ferry to France, Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport forced to shelter thousands of passengers in tents as passport control lines stretch all the way to the parking lot, major airports taking the unprecedented step of capping the number of passengers in a desperate attempt to avoid infrastructure collapse…these are just some of the situations those travelling in Europe have had to endure this summer.
Security and facilitation advisory for the 21st century.
