MadFokker.
Well, with dotars audit today...
anyhow - sign on, proceed thru security in bne. Aircraft late, but whats it matter anyhow - still, made it to gate only 15mins before STD, due to security not allowing us forward in the line.
All fine until arriving back into tsv from unsecured port, with change of aircraft on minimum possible turnaround time...
Cant get in terminal, then through security, then cant get back onto new aircraft as gate locked. Cant get tsv ops, so call bne ops to organise someone to let us thru.
Ground crew let us through then go off to do their own work. Pilots experience same problem, aircraft suffers a further 20minute delay in addition to the extra 15minutes it took to go through security and through the terminal.
Now, good point raised by our ground crew. What is to happen when crew sign on before security even opens. Many signons are 30minutes before security open, its bad enough trying to get through customs/security back of the clock at BNE intl, let alone TSV at 5am.
What about places like Coffs etc...? I will do what i'm told, but it just seems very silly - and costly!?