Abstract
Air transport consists in moving people or goods by air. Aircrafts, known as the main means of air transport, can be divided into two categories: airplanes and helicopters. Such transport is the most modern and the most dynamically developing branch of transport. It is also considered to be the safest mode of transport, even though, for various reasons, aviation accidents still occur.
 Security in aviation has various connotations. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), it is a state in which the possibility of damage to persons or property is minimized and is maintained as part of a continuous process of hazard identification and safety risk management at an acceptable level or below this acceptable level. Aviation security includes flight safety and aviation security against acts of unlawful interference. There is a significant difference between the meaning of "safety" and "security". The first of these concepts means preventing unintentional damage, while the second refers to the procedures undertaken in order to prevent deliberate damage resulting from an intentional act.
 As it appears from the abovementioned information, the immovable part of aviation safety is aircraft protection, including the protection of civilian airports.
 The aim of the article is to draw attention to the problems of air transport security, including the security of airports, related to the evolution of threats and the functioning of the airport security system.
 The problem that the authors address is expressed in a question: in what directions should the current solutions in the field of air transport security be improved in order to effectively prevent acts of unlawful interference in the future?
 Theoretical research methods, such as the analysis and synthesis of information contained in literature and source materials, inference, comparison, were used to develop the article.
Highlights
It is widely believed that general aviation is one of the safest means of transport
This article deals with the protection of air transport against acts of unlawful interference with an indication of trends that are likely to occur in the future
The aim of this article is to focus on the problems of air transport security at airports, associated with the evolution of threats and the functioning of an airport security system
Summary
It is widely believed that general aviation is one of the safest means of transport. The sense of security is quite relative, largely dependent on subjective feelings and difficult to describe in terms of procedures that ensure it. More effective laws and procedures, resulting in a reduction of the number of incidents, increase the sense of security and, as a result, raise the number of passengers This simple mental observation has become the basis of many efforts taken by airline companies, both those to deal with the transport of passengers and those to deal with the transport of goods. The authors of this article make the following assumption: the protection of aircrafts and airports should be viewed in a systemic way This means that the authorities, ministries and state services that can provide information about a potential threat and be used to naturalize it, should operate in one coherent system dedicated to civil aviation security, according to previously established rules.
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