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Old 26th Feb 2008, 11:45
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seldon
 
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First posting after a long time sitting and watching so treat me kindly.

I was disappointed with the programme generally because it lacked focus. I wanted an hour on airport security. There's certainly enough to speak about for an hour; shoe scanning only certain queues, safety of stuff you can buy airside and so on - all of which you can read in other threads here. How relevant was that bit about compensation to Heathrow's neighbours, for example?

While it's good to see Gilligan has survived the dodgy dossier episode I was disappointed that he didn't hound BAA more and try to get some more evidence, particularly on the queue stats. It's very boring to hear: Gilligan: 'Gatwick airlines say you only measure from near the X-ray security area'. BAA: 'They're wrong.' Well, who is right? Gilligan and the team should have found out.

On the plus side, the explosives section was thought-provoking IMHO but I'm surprised they didn't try to take it through security to see whether they would get caught.
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