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Have to say I agree. I fly so many times, literally multiple times in a month and have never been in the huge queues although I know they happen. Maybe twice in as many years I've been delayed. I was flying on one of the nights mentioned there was storms all over europe EZY operated my STN flight because of crew who were willing to work overtime, the aircraft having dealt in one day with a medical emergency on its first flight, a diversion into IBZ due to a thunderstorm, atc restriction at STN, the whole of STN being evacuated whole the aircraft was on stand, the cleaning crew not being able to board the plane the cabin crew serviced the aircraft themselves and EZY were intending to cancel and decided against. I've never seen more friendly crew, they were so apologetic, we were offered free drinks and snacks on the plane.
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Not to drag this on but I’ve just passed through Orlando this weekend. The TSA agents, “Passports and cell phones in you hand luggage or pockets. We only need to see electronics bigger than your cell in trays.” Are the TSA not know to extremely thorough?
Anyway, personally I’m done with it. As far as I’m concern every other airport lets me put my phone in carry on or pocket so it’ll stay there until explictly told otherwise.
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Interesting that I have had no issues this summer until Tuesday last week when it took me 50 mins to pass through.
Queue started before scanning, but as the article in BT stated all security lanes open. Likewise on Tuesday and queues moved steadily, although at a slow pace, apart from the couple in front of me who had to put their liquids in plastic bags at the X ray machine hence holding up the queue
Maybe additional lanes needed?? Looking forward to the queue this Thursday morning!!!!
Interesting that I have had no issues this summer until Tuesday last week when it took me 50 mins to pass through.
Queue started before scanning, but as the article in BT stated all security lanes open. Likewise on Tuesday and queues moved steadily, although at a slow pace, apart from the couple in front of me who had to put their liquids in plastic bags at the X ray machine hence holding up the queue
Maybe additional lanes needed?? Looking forward to the queue this Thursday morning!!!!
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More issues with security this morning I believe. More missed flights and disgruntled pax. Will the new security company solve these issues or will they simply inherit an infrastructure that is simply not fit for purpose? Coupled with staff that I assume will TUPE across, is anything really going to change?
Ironically it does appear that Aldergrove are victims of their own success, its just a pity they didn't have the capacity to deal with all of the new flights and increased pax numbers that has happened so quickly.
I have a solution though, send the Harbour marketing team up to Antrim and the Aldergrove marketing team to Harbour. Before you know it Aldergrove will once again be sweeping tumbleweed from their ramp and Harbour will have the numbers to make use of their nice new shiny security area! Simples!
Ironically it does appear that Aldergrove are victims of their own success, its just a pity they didn't have the capacity to deal with all of the new flights and increased pax numbers that has happened so quickly.
I have a solution though, send the Harbour marketing team up to Antrim and the Aldergrove marketing team to Harbour. Before you know it Aldergrove will once again be sweeping tumbleweed from their ramp and Harbour will have the numbers to make use of their nice new shiny security area! Simples!
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I passed through security yesterday about 5.15 pm. Priority lane. I was through in 2-3 minutes. No questions asked, my phone was in my carry on bag.
I was meeting a colleague and found him just inside the boarding pass gates. The queue stretched back to there. I feared he would not make our 7.00 pm flight. He joined me in the terminal in about 20 minutes, couldn't believe it. But well done yesterday.
I think one of the issues is the sheer unpredictability of security, it does seem to go from being fine to long delays. Since they know how many pax to expect, there must be other issues impacting here?
I was meeting a colleague and found him just inside the boarding pass gates. The queue stretched back to there. I feared he would not make our 7.00 pm flight. He joined me in the terminal in about 20 minutes, couldn't believe it. But well done yesterday.
I think one of the issues is the sheer unpredictability of security, it does seem to go from being fine to long delays. Since they know how many pax to expect, there must be other issues impacting here?
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I used BFS for the first time in 6 years around 5 weeks ago late August and I was not impressed tbh.
The airport itself reminds me of Leeds Bradford, busy but not a massive airport. Overall security was not too bad as we made sure to get there for around 4.30am for a 7.10am flight. The security tray area was not too bad but there was a bottle neck growing at the bit before that where you scan your boarding pass. They had about 5 x tray q's open but only 3 boarding scan sections at the most so there was potential for a bottle neck already.
But my memory is not of the q's, it was the state of the departure gate. Can't mind if it was gate 27 or 28 but it was down these dingy stairs and no joke, while waiting at the bottom of the stairs at the door to go to the Jet2 to Faro plane I looked above at the roof and it was like something from BBC 'Wildlfe on One'. This was not a high roof, just a foot or two above head level. I was waiting on David Attenborough to arrive with a camera crew ffs. Between a mass of cobwebs, alive and dead spiders and dead flies and blue bottles it was disgusting. This was above departing customers heads, it obviously had not been cleaned all summer. I thought it left a bad impression on passengers departing from BFS and NI.
The airport itself reminds me of Leeds Bradford, busy but not a massive airport. Overall security was not too bad as we made sure to get there for around 4.30am for a 7.10am flight. The security tray area was not too bad but there was a bottle neck growing at the bit before that where you scan your boarding pass. They had about 5 x tray q's open but only 3 boarding scan sections at the most so there was potential for a bottle neck already.
But my memory is not of the q's, it was the state of the departure gate. Can't mind if it was gate 27 or 28 but it was down these dingy stairs and no joke, while waiting at the bottom of the stairs at the door to go to the Jet2 to Faro plane I looked above at the roof and it was like something from BBC 'Wildlfe on One'. This was not a high roof, just a foot or two above head level. I was waiting on David Attenborough to arrive with a camera crew ffs. Between a mass of cobwebs, alive and dead spiders and dead flies and blue bottles it was disgusting. This was above departing customers heads, it obviously had not been cleaned all summer. I thought it left a bad impression on passengers departing from BFS and NI.
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I passed through security yesterday about 5.15 pm. Priority lane. I was through in 2-3 minutes. No questions asked, my phone was in my carry on bag.
I was meeting a colleague and found him just inside the boarding pass gates. The queue stretched back to there. I feared he would not make our 7.00 pm flight. He joined me in the terminal in about 20 minutes, couldn't believe it. But well done yesterday.
I think one of the issues is the sheer unpredictability of security, it does seem to go from being fine to long delays. Since they know how many pax to expect, there must be other issues impacting here?
I was meeting a colleague and found him just inside the boarding pass gates. The queue stretched back to there. I feared he would not make our 7.00 pm flight. He joined me in the terminal in about 20 minutes, couldn't believe it. But well done yesterday.
I think one of the issues is the sheer unpredictability of security, it does seem to go from being fine to long delays. Since they know how many pax to expect, there must be other issues impacting here?
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I went through BFS on Saturday morning and something triggered the alarm; after a full body scan, they still didn't know what had caused it ... this has never happened to me before.
Could somebody have tweaked the settings, thereby causing significant delays?
Could somebody have tweaked the settings, thereby causing significant delays?
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Went through last Wed. Emptied my pockets of everything. Belt off. Watch off. Etc. Usually that's enough to ensure that it doesn't go off. This time it did. Full body scan and pat down. If this is happening as often as it seems to be given the posts on here, it can't be helping the security delays.
Went through last Wed. Emptied my pockets of everything. Belt off. Watch off. Etc. Usually that's enough to ensure that it doesn't go off. This time it did. Full body scan and pat down. If this is happening as often as it seems to be given the posts on here, it can't be helping the security delays.
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Palma would likely be a blood bath. Between easyJet, Jet2, Thomas Cook and TUI I would guess there might already be enough capacity on the route.