Safety at LCY gate lounges
Not many non-positive comments on LCY here but interested to hear opinions, like what do Health & Safety think .....
As soon as a flight is called at LCY up to 80 or so pax all head for the gate, most of which are down narrow stairs straight to a boarding card check at the foot.
And delay of any sort there, or even just the fact that all the pax head down there together, means queueing the length of the stairs, holding various carry-on items in their hands.
Over time I have seen near-falls there on several occasions. A recent one was a mother, with baby AND bags (including the Pampers - poor soul !) nearly falling down a couple of times as the queue took several minutes to edge downwards.
Then of course some are coming straight from the bar !
Can't the handling agent desk be put at the other end of the gate with a corridor fashioned along the back wall to hold people waiting on the flat ? I know it would cut down on the seats but there are rarely enough of these anyway.