The US secure flight programme begins today, and although passengers onboard flights subjected to these checks can be sure that the cabin is safe from a shoe bomber or the like it is now obvious that freight being transported in the belly of the aircraft may well be a danger. Security companies are in for a further bonanza as measures are put into place to further minimise the threat in future. Air freight times will be extended and costs will increase in what is a further setback to aviation and, in turn, globalisation. But it would take a dramatic shift

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