Skip is spot on here
Isn't the problem the scanners are ancient and so drive far too many into secondary search
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I have recently been through 3 overseas airport & looked at the security bag rejections. I would say something like 1% are tracked for secondary screening. Passing through Manchester T1 last week this was well over 50%. Either the MAN training is useless or as I suspect, the Scanners are like the travelators & escalators- Cheap, old and/or knackered.
I had thought the T2 new ones would be much better, but no still 50+% bag rejection rates.
More & more airports now don't even have to have liquids removed, or it may be just liquids not electrical- here it's almost everything.
It's about investment in equipment, not just staffing.
Under Cornish it's been short term cheapness for maximum profit, hence also the scaled back T2 experience. Wooden benches & seats (same as used at Leeds train station). No check-in area seating. A check in area toilet with one urinal etc etc. Cheap, cheap, cheap is the motto at this place. In arrivals landside, something like 10 washbasins in the Gents- but 2 hand dryers. Penny pinchers.
There are no plans to replace or repair the Skylink travelators, nor the bus station passenger information screens that have been broke for 3 years.