Manchester Security
The other day, going through security at Manchester airport T1 I set the beeper off.
Now I don't mind being searched but this search was intrusive and I was spoken to like I was a piece of..well you know.
Now I have worked hard to get to where I am today and so I believe that I deserve a bit of respect, just in the same way that I am perfectly willing to respect anybody doing the job that they are paid to do (airport security staff included). Why did this (very young) man need to be so confrontational and disprespectful. The whole thing could have been completed with the same level of security achieved, but without anybody having to get upset.
Not only that, there were a lot of passengers witnessing this. As pilots we need to maintain an air of authority and respect amongs the flying public and this sort of epsiode will not help!
A CHIRP report is on its way as I speak.