Flew out of Bfs Saturday 2nd, mid afternoon. It was good to see that the airport and other parties had lots of concern for our Covid safety. Lots of recorded announcements about social distancing etc. All the usual stuff.
Wait!
Only 2 security lanes open, so we queued for 20/25 minutes to get through. No social distancing now, we are all on top of each other in those lanes. So why was this? Was the security company not prepared to put enough staff on, or is it the fault of the airport? This is when you realise all the announcements, posters etc are just paying lip service.
We flew to Lgw. On arrival, it was like a ghost town. Not much better on the Sunday morning. However, later, at Istanbul and Izmir airports, it was almost full steam ahead. It is distressing the harm being done to the UK aviation sector.