13. Expresses concern that certain practices of low-cost airlines, which often operate from regional airports, lead to poorer quality of service for passengers and a deterioration in working conditions; given the current aggressive business practice of some low-cost airlines operating from regional airports to take advantage of their dominant position, and given that commercial activities are a major source of income for regional airports, is concerned by ‘one-bag’ and other restrictions to the cabin baggage allowance imposed by certain airlines; takes the view that these practices represent a breach of competition law, and believes that these restric ...[+++]tions may constitute an abuse of a carrier's position; calls, therefore, on the Member States to set common upper limits to be imposed on airlines with regard to such restrictions and considers that any checks relating to luggage weight restrictions and size should be made before arrival at the departure gate;

We have 13 operations in the world at this point in time, involving some 4,500 members of the Canadian Forces, and that does not include the operations that we have currently ongoing in the United States with our NATO airborne warning and control system, the enhanced security that we have with F-18s, and the other operational activity we undertake in the NORAD context.

CATSA's mandate and responsibilities are divided into six main areas: one, pre-board screening of passengers and their belongings; two, screening of checked baggage, which includes the acquisition and deployment of explosives detection systems; three, the Canadian air carrier protective program, which is the joint program with the RCMP for on-board security; four, federal assistance for air security-related airport policing; five, the creation of an enhanced restricted area pass system to control access to restricted areas at airp ...[+++]orts; and finally, the selective screening of non-passengers entering restricted areas at airports, such as aircraft groomers, refuellers, and other airside workers.

In the rest of the airports NATS charges the airport operators (and not the airlines) for the provision of air traffic control services at the airports.

In addition to Rycom's domestic efforts, Iridian and their partner affiliates are working with governmental and commercial segments on deployments and pilots throughout the world, some of which are the following: the general director of Abu Dhabi police in the United Arab Emirates launched the world's first national iris-based expelleestracking and border control system; JFK is testing iris recognition to protect access to the tarmacs; iris recognition helps the United Nations administer aid to Afghan refugees; the Federal Aviation Administration is using iris to protect sensitive information; Narita ...[+++]Airport in Japan is using it in the ticketing and boarding of passengers, with the intent, once the pilot is complete, to use it as a border passage vehicle; Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is using it for automatic border passage; Heathrow Airport is utilizing it in immigration passport control; and Singapore, Malaysia, is using it in border crossing.

To ensure that passenger traffic in airports is not held up and to avoid the administrative complications which would be caused by applying different controls according to the destination of passengers travelling on a means of transport visiting extra-Community ports or airports, the Regulation would not apply to: - the cabin and checked baggage of passengers taking a flight in an aircraft that began its journey at a non-Community airport and which pursues it between two Community airports; - 2 - - the cabin and checked baggage of pa ...[+++]ssengers taking a flight in an aircraft which, after a leg between two Community airports, continues its journey to a non-Community airport; - the baggage of passengers using a maritime service effected in one vessel and comprising successive legs departing from, terminating in or calling at a non-Community port; - the baggage of passengers on board pleasure craft.