Passenger John Short, an accountant in Liverpool, said: "I am a frequent flyer with three children and hold down a respectable job. I am not going to plant a bomb on a plane. I would like to be positively vetted, and would be more than happy to pay £10 per year to have a security check rather than scanning me every time I step on a plane."
Martin Reynolds, 24, from Liverpool said: "All it does is raise the bar for terrorists. If a terrorist is determined, they will just develop something that is not detectable. I feel airports are cheating us out of our money."
Mother-of-two Debbie Moore, 34, said: "We already pay taxes and parking charges and the price of the tickets. Now the budget airlines are charging extra for hold baggage. It is ridiculous to say they now want us to pay out another £2 for being frisked. There must be some more efficient way that they can filter passengers."
Peel Holdings says it was continuing to make a loss following an investment of more than £80m in recent years to improve facilities and infrastructure, as passenger numbers at JLA have increased ten-fold over the past nine years.
Mr Pakey stressed that unlike the majority of worldwide airports, UK airports receive no government financial assistance.
He said the charges will be applied to around 2.5m passengers who depart through JLA each year.
No date for the introduction of charges has been set. A spokesman for JLA said the launch would depend on when the new ticket machines and turnstiles would arrive on site.
He stressed extra staff and multi-lingual information boards would help passengers get used to the new system.
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