Stansted in the wars over huge overnight arrivals delays early on Monday 4 June
Hundreds wait hours in Stansted Airport baggage 'chaos' - BBC News
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Cargo handlers Swissport said "seven times the number of anticipated flights arrived after 01:00 BST on Monday".". How can you have no idea what time flights are anticipated to arrive, the FIDS etc give several hours of forward forecasting, likewise the carriers.
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forced a high number of flights at Stansted to land outside of the scheduled operating hours". Um ... Stansted is an H24 operating hours airport.
Well, we came through 24 hours beforehand, early on Sunday 3 June (due 0045, arrived 0145) to find exactly the same situation. Not vast incoming delays but there are a lot due just before midnight which were coming in around 0100, which often seems par for the course there. And WHAT a disgrace that place is. Enormous Tensa-barrier slalom for immigration. Best part of 1,000 pax waiting at 0200. Large pile of uncleared vomit on the floor in this queueing area went completely unattended all the time we were there. Main clock overhead the queueing area stopped. No queue marshalling. One hour to get through the few immigration officers on duty. And then the bags weren't even out. Difficult to get close to the FIDS showing the baggage carousel because hundreds of people waiting there for information on bags from flights which not only had no carousel shown but had completely vanished from the board. Outside the transfer buses to the long term car park etc also appeared to have large queues and were disorganised and no vehicles appeared to be about. Finally got away well after 0300. What was noticeable was the very considerable number of vehicles actually coming in to the airport at that time, pretty much up to daytime traffic levels.
What did I say above about it being an H24 airport.