Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
if you encourage passengers to drink for a couple of hours before boarding what do you expect?
Cut check-in times and return airports to places to fly from rather than shop and drink in.................
Worst lot I ever saw was an icelandair flight at Schipol - security had fenced the whole flight in around one bar and everyone over the age of 14 was flinging it down like lunatics. the security guy told me "they're allways like this - no trouble but completely out of their minds by the time the plane leaves..........."
Good points!
I've still got the itinerary from a school trip many moons ago. A coach to leave deepest south London at 0730 for a 0930 flight from LHR.
Ok there was less traffic and less pax flying but the time scale would be almost unbelievable these days.
At AMS they generally do security by flight at the gate, there being no central security area. Which is a very different set up to that generally found in the UK and elsewhere.