Originally Posted by
chrism20
The majority of hold ups are caused once again by the pax who are asked 'does your bag contain any liquids or sharp objects?', the pax replies 'no' and the scanner starts beeping like hell!
This is not the "cause" of the hold ups; these are caused solely by the airport authority not providing sufficient screening resources, occasionally screening stations but principally staff.
The average time taken to process each passenger is readily calculated. This will include whatever proportion of passengers need to have bags hand-searched, etc, which doubtless varies by time of day and such like but can be easily determined. The proportion of those who need additional checks has not suddenly changed upwards. What has changed is additional passengers due to additional flights, and seemingly the airport is attempting to process them with the same resources as before.
But it's not as if they didn't know Ryanair were coming, is it ?
A further inappropriate excuse is that proferred by BAA and others that it takes them so long to get security clearance for new personnel. This was being uttered last summer/autumn by various airports, the explanation being that it takes "3 months to get security clearance for them". Well the 3 months are long passed, no noticeable improvement.
If Inverness can't handle it they should have told Ryanair not to come.