LPL Baggage 28/11
Was on the BA LHR-MAN today which, along with 7 or 8 other A320s / 737s etc diverted into LPL due to the runway at MAN being closed due to snow.
Then proceeded to wait just under TWO hours for the bags to arrive, and to say I was flabbergasted was an understatement! Bearing in mind we were one of the first diversions in, and the first people into an empty baggage hall, I just don't get it. It's not like the regular EZY / Ryanair traffic was being given priority, as nothing significant arrived whilst we were waiting.
Anybody shed any light on why things were so ridiculously slow? Was it dinnertime? I'd understand it if we were the 10th diversion in, but we were 3rd in behind a KLM Fokker and a Swiss EMB 145, and the pax from both flights had passed through the terminal before we entered.
By the way, I'm a big supporter of my 'local', and fly from there whenever I can. But today left me completely perplexed, and that's putting it mildly!