While I’m having a moan at Manchester, is there a reason that the very common soft “holdall” type bags have to be taken round to a special desk to be put into the baggage system after checkin ? This only seems to happen at Manchester, and possibly only in T1?
It’s not a huge issue, but a bit of a pain. I was recently traveling business class with my family with EK, it was a little odd - we were whisked to the terminal by a limo, whisked to the checkin line by a helpful driver, whisked through the checkin process - all very efficient. However, we were then told to put all the bags back onto the trolleys, trundle them round to the 'special' bag checkin and stand in line for a good 15 minutes for the bags to be matched with id's and boarding cards, rescanned and entered into the baggage system.
Last edited by double_barrel; 4th Jun 2023 at 08:28.