The Union wants to get the federal government to take concrete measures to prevent renewed chaos at German airports before the next big wave of travel. The CDU and CSU also want to put the unemployed at the baggage carousel.
In an application that is expected to be discussed in the plenary session of the Bundestag this Thursday, the members of the CDU and CSU are also making a number of their own proposals.
Among other things, the parliamentary group suggests “targeting suitable employable recipients of benefits under the Social Security Code for simple jobs in the airport area, in particular for the transport of luggage, and supporting them in acquiring the necessary requirements such as the background check”. According to the Aviation Security Act, anyone who wants to work in certain areas at the airport must first provide information about their home address and previous employment, which will then be checked by the authorities.
From the point of view of the Union faction, the federal government should also take specific measures to curb the sharp rise in costs for aviation security checks since 2020 and ensure that the computer tomography technology that has been tried and tested in many EU countries and at Munich Airport is used across the board at all airports where the Federal Police is responsible for passenger and baggage checks. Since containers with liquids can no longer be unpacked with this procedure, but can be left in the luggage, the checks could be carried out more quickly with at least the same level of security.
Together with the federal states, the federal government should push ahead with the introduction of a nationwide background check and the creation of a corresponding register so that the employees of security service providers can be deployed flexibly at all airports in Germany.
Last June, when there were enormous waiting times and luggage chaos at several airports in some federal states after the start of the summer holidays, the federal government made it possible to recruit helpers from Turkey at short notice. However, the airport operators hardly made use of this option.
“We don’t want the airport chaos that thousands of passengers experienced this summer to be repeated,” said domestic politician Christoph de Vries (CDU). This requires structural changes in the organization of security checks and not “helpless activism by the federal government, as the passengers experienced during the summer holidays.”
