Capot
21st Mar 2008, 15:49
pm 20th Mar at Frankfurt, now rapidly becoming an airport that makes Heathrow look well-planned and user friendly.....
BA from the new, unfinished T2, wait at Gate E3..5 minutes before closure time, with little action evident, gate change to D1, calling for a route march through the building works.
Get there, long queue at D gate area security, eventually security staff start processing people through, very slowly and zealously, eg passports taken out of pockets because their metal strip set off the AMD, and sent through the X-ray separately to make sure they didn't contain a machine-gun.
Then, guess what, about 100 passengers are led through into the area via a door to the side of the security screening area, without going through security. It's another gate change in progress but they are in a hurry, the BA pax surmise, and laugh rather than cry.
One elderly gent finds it's all too much and asks the security muppets why they are bothering, when 100 people have just been led straight past them.
Chief Muppet immediately threatens him with being banned from flying for showing dissent, and then shows that his grasp of the concept of secure and insecure areas is a bit fragile by explaining "when they get to their gate they will be screened for security".
Which only goes to show that airport security muppets have the same rather low IQ the world over.
BA from the new, unfinished T2, wait at Gate E3..5 minutes before closure time, with little action evident, gate change to D1, calling for a route march through the building works.
Get there, long queue at D gate area security, eventually security staff start processing people through, very slowly and zealously, eg passports taken out of pockets because their metal strip set off the AMD, and sent through the X-ray separately to make sure they didn't contain a machine-gun.
Then, guess what, about 100 passengers are led through into the area via a door to the side of the security screening area, without going through security. It's another gate change in progress but they are in a hurry, the BA pax surmise, and laugh rather than cry.
One elderly gent finds it's all too much and asks the security muppets why they are bothering, when 100 people have just been led straight past them.
Chief Muppet immediately threatens him with being banned from flying for showing dissent, and then shows that his grasp of the concept of secure and insecure areas is a bit fragile by explaining "when they get to their gate they will be screened for security".
Which only goes to show that airport security muppets have the same rather low IQ the world over.