They have resisted outsourcing Security for years. However the recent rise in costs is obviously having its toll. The security structure from a staff level is ludicrous. Contracts and hours are constantly being reinvented to fit holes in the cover at the cheapest possible rate..
On another note. If the Runway is not extended then the airport will drop out of the race. They keep umming and ahhing about the International pier which looks like something straight from the old Easten block.
Unless they improve that then the likes of Emirates will pull the plug.
Low cost seems to be the continuation of short termism thats rife in the corridors of Diamond House.
The only hope is that new owners with money and ideas beyond the present set up arrive soon. If they are not forward thinking and in for the long haul (Sorry!) Then the UK's second city will end up with a second rate airport.
Congratulations to EMA on winning best regional airport....
