ID cards: aviation industry a political pawn say airline bosses

3.17.00pm UTC (GMT +0000) Sat 5th Jul 2008

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Earlier this week the Chief Executives of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, BMI and easyjet wrote to the Government accusing them of using their industry as a political pawn in the national identity card debate by forcing aviation workers to join the scheme next year.

They say in their letter that "no additional security benefits have been identified. Indeed, there is a real risk that enrolment in the national ID scheme will be seen to provide an added, but ultimately false, sense of security to our processes,"