On two separate business trips both intra EU the volume of pax waiting to go through security was increadiable. Alot of the airlines at our local Airfield now do include in any of your ticket details an item suggesting that you do not take any liquids or keep everything to size 50mls to save time. I went through on a night stop with everything I needed in my handbag including toothbrush paste, etc and then bought other items airside which was suggested by our hotac department.
But it is the travellers who do not travel often which is where the tour operators can help with as much information on line when pax do a booking and in the packs sent out to the paxs instructing them to follow the guide lines to make their travel less plesant.
But families do suffer with small children in these lines and that is where maybe the airport authorities need to re address the who issues.
TnT