Blackpool airport just lost another business user!
Flew into EGNH today, as we have done many times in the past, to pick up a TVR engineer. Intention was to remain RR as we were on a tight schedule and had to be 'down sarth' for a meeting. Private trip. Co-pilot held the controls whilst I donned the dayglo vest and traipsed off to the security hut to escort the pax.
In so doing I entered a world of officialdom rarely seen on such a scale for such a facility.
Suffice to say, we will not be using Blackpool for such 'services' again.
I had pre-noted everything that I could think of but no-one outside of the tower seemed to know what was going on.
Despite their web-site claims, they are not encouraging people who have to be somewhere else rather than watching a clerk cross-check the reg and type you've already given them against a list of aircraft types.
Thank heavens for a sense of humour!
20 minutes to pick up one pax is not encouraging business users.