Danny. No pens allowed through crew security at LGW! You cannot be serious? Surely we should all just turn around and return to our crew rooms - we cannot do our jobs without the basic pen! It wouldn't take too many delayed or cancelled flights with the subsequent even more crowding in the terminal, gates occupied by non-departing a/c etc, our management would soon be screaming down the phone at the BAA. The head of security at LGW would very soon be asked to explain his reasoning when his counterpart up the road at LHR is operating to a different set of rules!
I shall look forward to going through LGW this week.