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10 Implications Regarding Foiled UK Plane Plot Posted: August 10th, 2006 11:07 AM PDT The Business Travel Coalition * Full Coverage on: Terror <http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/fullsection.jsp?siteSection=28> in the Airports 1. This development will reinforce for corporations the importance of knowing at all times where their travelers are. This has become a travel management best practice for global corporations. The Air Canada Tango controversy and U.S. travel distribution reform both point to the threat of content fragmentation and the implied consequence of travelers booking flights outside their corporation's managed travel program at "airline.com" wherein information regarding their whereabouts is lost. 2. Foreign flag carriers will likely see an immediate boost in traffic, as U.S. carriers were the apparent targets. 3. A considerable amount of business travel to the UK will be cancelled for today, and the rest of the week due to security concerns as well as airport hassles. 4. Business travel to the UK will likely remain off if corporations and travelers are not confident that the threat has been eradicated. 5. Business travel demand will likely be dampened, at least somewhat, if additional security measures are perceived to be truly onerous. This has implications for domestic U.S. travel as well as U.S.-to-UK travel. 6. A falloff in business travel demand could blunt the upward pressure on U.S.-to-UK Business Class fare levels, which have been very strong this year. 7. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and some Members of Congress, will likely use this opportunity to argue for the removal of the cap on the number of airport screeners. 8. Registered Traveler program (RT) detractors will likely seize on this opportunity to argue airport security is serious business, and as such, resources, including TSA management time and attention, should not be diverted for the benefit of a small segment of the flying public. RT proponents will look at new levels of airport hassles and delays and argue the development only underscores the importance of the RT program. 9. New momentum will likely build behind Secure Flight. Some will argue (per the above point) that TSA resources devoted to RT should be immediately redirected to Secure Flight. 10. Fractional jet and corporate flight department options will receive greater interest from corporate security executives and senior management for security and executive productivity reasons. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
