Passengers of charter flights are liable for nearly all of extra costs arising from delays in airport security checks, in response to scientific research conducted by airport security consulting company, Kirschenbaum Consulting. The findings are in accordance with a one-year in-depth study held at a regional European airport. The consequences indicate that while only 10-15% of scheduled passengers carried prohibited items, 33-50% of charter passengers did so. Moreover, while only 10% of normal flyers were re-examined by security employees, 33% of charter passengers needed another check.The research, which included both an ethnographic and time-motion study, also showed that, while charter passengers accounted for under 50%of overall traffic, they were accountable for one more 35% of the final security costs. Even though the vast majority of passengers go through the safety...
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