Queues - we love 'em
Earlier this week had a short flight from Doncaster Sheffield Airport on a Flybe jet, serviced I think by Swissair.
At the appointed time we all heard the dispatcher request the 16 passengers or so...
We duly trotted off to have our boarding passes checked, and out into the uninsulated unheated corridor and set-off down the stairs to the 'exit'. (Doncaster being poor - the exit does not have a door - just a barrier....)
Now you would expect that as there are not many of us, and we've been requested that they would be ready for us...
Nope. 15 minutes we were kept there for. Not only was it cold, but people were stacked on the stairs. To my mind this has the potential to be quite dangerous. If someone fell ill, wobbled, dropped a big piece of hand luggage, quite the dominoes - compared to leaving us where we were.
So what gives? This is actually a pretty common occurrence in my experience, and I feel grumpy....