Aviation security will be tightened even further as part of a Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill being introduced tomorrow.
Unveiling a host of new measures to combat terrorism, Home Secretary Theresa May said the bill would ‘toughen our arrangements for aviation security’.
"This means requiring airlines to provide passenger data more effectively, changing the law to extend our ‘no-fly’ list, and strengthening our ability to impose security and screening requirements on travel to the UK," she said.
"If airlines do not give us passenger information or comply with our security screening rules, we will ensure they cannot fly to the United Kingdom."
The bill comes after it was confirmed that there have been 40 planned terror attacks foiled since the July 7 bombings in London in 2005.
Earlier this year the Government raised the terror threat level in Britain from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’ in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Meanwhile, the travelling British public are being urged to stay alert and report anything they see as suspicious and out-of-place.
Making an appeal, British Transport Police chief constable Paul Crowther highlighted the case of Andreas Pierides, who was arrested earlier this year after a passenger on his train saw him reading material which seemed to include bomb-making instructions.
According to the BBC, the concerned passenger told train staff, who told police, who then used CCTV to track Pierides to the station where he had bought his ticket.
He was later arrested at Stansted Airport trying to fly out of the country, and received an 18-month suspended sentence for taking explosive flares on to a plane at a UK airport and possessing a terrorist manual.
