STN security and Bag System
With regards to the baggage system failing at STN. Ryanair use a different bag system in zone J to the rest of the airport and that is where the vast number of their flights check-in. I have not noticed any change in the frequency of stoppages in the baggage system since last week. In all other Zones the bag system is running as normal.
Onto the security area. It does not surprise me that BAA did not have all the security points open. They leave it to late to open all the whole of the security search area and then it delays flight or people miss them. I was round there the other day and the number of people who had missed flights with easyJet and Ryanair all because of the security mess up was shocking. This is not the correct way to run London’s third busiest airport.
An Air Berlin flight went 40 mins late all because of transfer pax not getting through security. Staff had to escort them through security and the directly to the air