I must be unlucky as I’ve never achieved security clearing less than 30 minutes. Today T1B I thought 11am would be off peak, but it took me 40 minutes to clear through that sweat box of T1B today, Thursday.
Hardly any free seats in the Terminal, people sat on floors eating chips.
The staff were friendly & people were being pushed from T1 to T1B which only had 3 lanes open.
Unable to get into any lounges with passes as “full to capacity” only pre books allowed.
The whole process grim & unpleasant.
On the bag scanning, I use the same bag with the same benign contents everywhere. It has never been pulled for secondary anywhere in the world, except MAN - it’s 50/50 it gets stopped - today was a lucky day in that respect