The United Kingdom remained at its highest threat level
Media Release
Aug. 11, 2006

The United Kingdom remained at its highest threat level Friday, the day after authorities arrested 24 suspects in a suspected plot to blow up as many as 10 passenger jets leaving Britain for the United States.

Home Secretary John Reid said the government wanted to "err on the side of caution," according to Britain's Home Office.

Flight schedules in Britain were improving Friday. Still, there were still several cancellations, including 30 percent of all short-haul flights out of Heathrow Airport, said Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander. The crowds and lines that logjammed British airports the day before were largely gone, he said.

Across the Atlantic, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the alleged plot should not deter Americans from boarding planes. "I want to reiterate: Flying is safe," Chertoff said. "It is safe precisely because of the measures we''re taking here and have been taking elsewhere in the world. And the commitment of the people of (the Transportation Security Administration) is to keep it safe."

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