Local press reports this week say that BRS is to spend £3.2 million increasing the terminal first floor space by extending it over the arrivals area in order to expand the security search area.
There will be additional search lanes and x-ray machines giving a total of nine that will, according to the airport, reduce passenger security queue waiting times of 20-25 minutes to ten minutes.
Work will take place over the winter and should be finished by next summer.
The new CEO, Paul Kehoe, stated at the time of his appointment that one of his priorities was to reduce time pax spent in the security environment.
The airport also announced recently that it is spending a seven figure sum on a new IT system for self-service check-ins.
Anything that speeds up the passenger experience will be welcome and these initiatives won’t need planning consent, unlike the major expansion plans.
With passenger numbers up nearly 8% in July (BRS website figures) compared with July 06, and set to rise significantly more when Ryanair starts its base, Mr Kehoe and his staff will have to come up with some more fine tuning over the next year or two whilst the main expansion planning battles are fought.
Pete: easyJet is double-daily to CDG this summer but during the past few weeks the Tuesday morning and Thursday morning rotations have not operated but extra rotations to La Rochelle have flown instead on these days, presumably using the 'CDG aircraft' because timings are roughly similar.