German airports should consider "profiling" passengers, a controversial practice used by other countries that risks discriminating passengers according to criteria such as religious and ethnic background.
The incoming head of the German airport industry association ADV, Christoph Blume, said that grouping passengers into different categories of risk could put an end to the ever-growing number of security checks.
"Every new incident leads to further controls and security measures. This results in a race to upgrade equipment that at some point will reach their technological and operating limits," he told the Rheinische Post.
"This way [through profiling], control systems could be more effectively employed for the well-being of all participants," said Blume, who is chief executive of Duesseldorf airport.
Germany's Justice Minister rejected Blume's proposal. "
