On the subject of Manchester security, I was made to feel like a naughty schoolboy at the weekend for being in the departures lounge without my biometrics being taken. Flying LAX to IOM via LHR and MAN. My biometrics had been captured at LHR an hour earlier but the security guard at the entrance to the gate 14x corridor in T3 made me stand in the corner whilst he dealt with the rest of the queue and made out that I had done something wrong and somehow evaded security.
My crime? Getting off the flight from LHR and walking into the departures lounge by following the signage for T3 departures.
I had already had biometrics taken at LHR T5 transfer desk so thought nothing of it until my Flybe boarding pass refused to let me through the automated gate.
If there is a biometric loophole at T3 then fix it, but dont take it out on your passengers by embarrassing them at the gate
