So MAN has less than 6 de-ricers for an airport handling close to 25 million, ridiculous.
How many do EDI, GLA, LPL, BHX have, one would expect a much higher ration to the actual numbers of passengers handled.
Delays of up to an hour would be expected however higher than that then there is a real problem.
We always hear about staff been cut to the bone yet every other airport in the UK appear not to have such problem. Why is this, are they over staffed, I expect not.
In a similar vein, do any insiders know why T3 security at MAN always has huge queues even at off peak times? One thing Heathrow Airport has really tackled is this area, it is by no means uncommon to have ZERO people in front of you in T5 now mid morning whilst at the same time in Manchester it takes a good 20 minutes (accompanied by much shouting which is hardly conducive to reducing stress of customers or air crew one would think). If your bag is selected for secondary search it looks as though you can kiss goodbye to any time spent in the shops or lounges so must cost them money?
No disrespect but you should really be able to answer your own question. Staff have been cut or moved to address peak hour problems and nobody new hired.
20 minutes would be the norm at peak times in an airport the size of MAN, never mind off peak.
If MAN was a regulated airport there would be fines for such poor performance, no specifically related to the security to in general.