Fri, Dec 03, 2010
Majorities Also Reportedly Support The Use Of Full Body
Scanners
A new Financial Times/Harris Poll in the United States and the
five largest European countries looks at air travel safety and
security and finds an overall sense of safety prevails.
Three-quarters of Spaniards (75%), more than seven in ten Britons
(72%), more than two-thirds of Americans (69%) and Germans (68%),
and more than three in five Italians (64%) and French (62%) all say
they consider air travel to be safe. In fact, one-third of Britons
(35%) and Americans (32%) say they consider it to be very safe.
These are some of the findings of a Financial Times/Harris Poll
conducted online by Harris Interactive among 6,130 adults aged
16-64 within France (1,097), Germany (1,070), Great Britain (871),
Spain (1,003), the U.S. (1,044) and adults aged 18-64 in Italy
(1,045) between November 9 and 16, 2010.
Other findings of this survey include:
- Considering some of the new airport security measures that have
been put in place, such as removing shoes and no bottled water,
around half of Germans (52%), French (49%), Americans (49%),
Spaniards (48%) and Britons (47%) all say these current airport
security measures are adequate and should not change. Italians are
more torn, as two in five say both that these measures are adequate
(41%) and the same number say that they are not rigid enough and
should be made more rigid (41%).
- About one in five adults in each of the six countries (between
18% and 25%) believe that these security measures are too rigid and
should be relaxed. When these adults were asked what should be
relaxed or removed completely, adults said the limit on liquids
(between 64% and 90%), having to fit cosmetics and liquids into a
plastic bag (between 55% and 74%), and removing shoes and belts
(between 45% and 75%) top the list;
- As full body scanners are rolled out in the United States,
adults in all six countries say they support these devices being
used. Strong majorities in Italy (68%), Great Britain (68%), France
(65%), Germany (64%), the U.S. (62%) and Spain (59%) all mostly
support the introduction of full body scanners in all major
airports.
- One additional security measure is being discussed in the
U.K.—profiling airline passengers at security, or targeting
specific groups. Over half of Britons (54%), almost half of
Americans (48%), and two in five Germans (43%), Spaniards (42%) and
Italians (41%) would mostly support this additional security
measure. French adults are of a different mindset with 41% saying
they would mostly oppose this practice while 38% would mostly
support it. There is also a great deal of uncertainty on this
security measure as one in five adults in all six countries say
they are not sure if they would support or oppose this
measure.
As the holiday season kicks off around the world, many people
will be flying this month. Each of them will have to kick off their
shoes, take their laptops out of bags and, perhaps, deal with a
pat-down at security. However, at least according to this poll,
these measures seem to be working, as adults in these six countries
believe these current security measures are adequate and they feel
safe when flying.
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