Originally Posted by
forbesd
For the sake of balance, I just wanted to add our experience on Monday morning. We arrived at the T1 drop off zone upstairs at 0935, checked in at Jet2 check in downstairs, through secutity and were in our seats by the window in Giraffe by 1000. Ok this is not the early morning wave but it is entirely acceptable. Staff were pleasant, frankly it was the passengers who were downright rude at times.
I took some time to see what was causing the delays at security. There were a reasonable number of lanes open but the number of bags needing personal review was much higher than usual. I was astonished to see that the biggest problem was fluids, gels, lotions etc.which had not been separated from other hand baggage before scanning. The rules about liquids have been in place since 9/11 some 20 years ago so there is no excuse. Those whose hand luggage needed reviewing will have been delayed.
To be exact, the liquids rule came in in late summer 2006.