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Security delays a joke
24th December at 0715. Only four out of 13 security lanes open on main level. The wait was over an hour. Constantly blaming the passengers (not getting everything out for X-ray) instead of understanding that it is Christmas, people have lots of stuff so they need to increase staff provision to accommodate the increased numbers and potential for increased manual searching. No customer service.
So I didn't buy any duty free nor any magazines. What a waste of time and lost monetary opportunity.
Which morons run the airport? Could not organise a party in a distillery.....
So I didn't buy any duty free nor any magazines. What a waste of time and lost monetary opportunity.
Which morons run the airport? Could not organise a party in a distillery.....
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I once got a phone call for flying to close to the Heysham restricted zone around the power station.
We had told them we were coming, had not entered the restricted zone and as we were a Cat A flight the restriction did not apply to us so I gained great pleasure in pointing out the error of their ways and was left wondering how bright/prepared they were.
In some place like Russia or the USA the Gatwick incident would have been over in 30 minutes, in Lefty Libtard UK, more than 30 hours.
We had told them we were coming, had not entered the restricted zone and as we were a Cat A flight the restriction did not apply to us so I gained great pleasure in pointing out the error of their ways and was left wondering how bright/prepared they were.
In some place like Russia or the USA the Gatwick incident would have been over in 30 minutes, in Lefty Libtard UK, more than 30 hours.
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I once got a phone call for flying to close to the Heysham restricted zone around the power station.
We had told them we were coming, had not entered the restricted zone and as we were a Cat A flight the restriction did not apply to us so I gained great pleasure in pointing out the error of their ways and was left wondering how bright/prepared they were.
In some place like Russia or the USA the Gatwick incident would have been over in 30 minutes, in Lefty Libtard UK, more than 30 hours.
We had told them we were coming, had not entered the restricted zone and as we were a Cat A flight the restriction did not apply to us so I gained great pleasure in pointing out the error of their ways and was left wondering how bright/prepared they were.
In some place like Russia or the USA the Gatwick incident would have been over in 30 minutes, in Lefty Libtard UK, more than 30 hours.
24th December at 0715. Only four out of 13 security lanes open on main level. The wait was over an hour. Constantly blaming the passengers (not getting everything out for X-ray) instead of understanding that it is Christmas, people have lots of stuff so they need to increase staff provision to accommodate the increased numbers and potential for increased manual searching. No customer service.
So I didn't buy any duty free nor any magazines. What a waste of time and lost monetary opportunity.
Which morons run the airport? Could not organise a party in a distillery.....
So I didn't buy any duty free nor any magazines. What a waste of time and lost monetary opportunity.
Which morons run the airport? Could not organise a party in a distillery.....
we were not allowed to relocate to a free lane as “not possible once allocated”
Embarrassing incompetence even when relatively quiet.
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if you google "Dave Carroll." An Americam folk singer who had the misfortune to fly with United Airlines. The baggage handlers broke his guitar so he wrote a song "United breaks guitars" The vid went viral, its quite funny too! Cost United a packet.
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Anything been mentioned about Virgin service increase in winter season?
5 weekly B744 to Atlanta (instead of 3) and 7 weekly A332 to New York JFK (instead of 3)
5 weekly B744 to Atlanta (instead of 3) and 7 weekly A332 to New York JFK (instead of 3)
Another interesting T1 experience today, this time ground floor screening.Time 45 minutes.
security barking at passengers sayings it’s your own fault not taking liquids & electronics out.
My bag was sidelined too, the same bag with the same contents packed the same way has already been through Manchester, Frankfurt, Salzburg & Vienna the last 5 days without being pulled. Nothing was “found” . From what I observed this was the case with most of the bags being pulled.
Hence the delays were NOT caused by pax but the screening process in place at Manchester.
if you’ve got 45 minutes delays mid December then I fear summer 2019 will be no better than this years chaos.
ive read the customer services manager report on security delays given at the Consultative meetings & it bears no resemblance to my experiences. How she compiles her statistics, I don’t know.
security barking at passengers sayings it’s your own fault not taking liquids & electronics out.
My bag was sidelined too, the same bag with the same contents packed the same way has already been through Manchester, Frankfurt, Salzburg & Vienna the last 5 days without being pulled. Nothing was “found” . From what I observed this was the case with most of the bags being pulled.
Hence the delays were NOT caused by pax but the screening process in place at Manchester.
if you’ve got 45 minutes delays mid December then I fear summer 2019 will be no better than this years chaos.
ive read the customer services manager report on security delays given at the Consultative meetings & it bears no resemblance to my experiences. How she compiles her statistics, I don’t know.
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Manchester are just as bad for staff search. It’s got the reputation as the worst place for being screened as operating crew at my airline. Thankfully I’m not based there as doing that multiple times in a month would drive me crazy. The bark and shout and have their own rules which no other airports in the UK seem to have. So when you fall foul of one of these unique manchester rules they go crazy.
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Manchester are just as bad for staff search. It’s got the reputation as the worst place for being screened as operating crew at my airline. Thankfully I’m not based there as doing that multiple times in a month would drive me crazy. The bark and shout and have their own rules which no other airports in the UK seem to have. So when you fall foul of one of these unique manchester rules they go crazy.
They are so up themselves they probably actually believe it which is the concerning factor. By having this arrogant self belief you are intrinsically reducing the quality and safety of the work you do...
Avoid Manchester....we do
they give you a smug smile and tell you that they do it much better at Manchester than other airports in the UK...
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Manchester are just as bad for staff search. It’s got the reputation as the worst place for being screened as operating crew at my airline. Thankfully I’m not based there as doing that multiple times in a month would drive me crazy. The bark and shout and have their own rules which no other airports in the UK seem to have. So when you fall foul of one of these unique manchester rules they go crazy.
Sorry to say that I do regard all three of the MAG airports as the worst in the country from a passenger's perspective of security, and that's from a very broad experience base of frequent travel. I haven't had the same as Skip 1F but have had several other experiences where asinine rules are enforced - usually by shouting at groups of people in queues - that only appear at MAN, EMA or STN. I'm afraid that I've come to associate MAG airports with long security queues, shouty staff, silly local rules, slow processing due to a crazy insistence on almost each item having its own tray for search, far higher probability of trays being rejected for search, and a superior belief that they are somehow doing things better than other airports by enforcing all of these. And anyone with the temerity to challenge or question any of this is told "it's for your own safety". I actively try to avoid all three where I have an alternative.
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For one, the insistence that you can’t put more than one item in a tray, e.g. coat, camera, hand luggage all have to go in a tray of their own....
When a bus full of air crew is being 'processed' through security, woe betide anyone who isn't air crew if they try and mingle amongst them and slip through while they check their hold bags through the x-ray machine. An A380 has a large compliment of crew, waiting 20 minutes or more while they clear security is not unheard of.
An allen (hex) key is considered an offensive weapon and may not be taken airside unless you possess the necessary ToT pass.
i could go on...
Well, according to the MAG customer service response, a pax cannot change security lanes once a lane has been allocated- DfT rules. Is that true?
Also once again blame for delays are put purely on the pax not abiding by the rules. So only a Manchester originating passengers cause delays?
Also does not explain:-
[QUOTE][My bag was sidelined too, the same bag with the same contents packed the same way has already been through Manchester, Frankfurt, Salzburg & Vienna the last 5 days without being pulled. Nothing was “found” . From what I observed this was the case with most of the bags being pulled.
Hence the delays were NOT caused by pax but the screening process in place at Manchester./QUOTE]
Also once again blame for delays are put purely on the pax not abiding by the rules. So only a Manchester originating passengers cause delays?
Also does not explain:-
[QUOTE][My bag was sidelined too, the same bag with the same contents packed the same way has already been through Manchester, Frankfurt, Salzburg & Vienna the last 5 days without being pulled. Nothing was “found” . From what I observed this was the case with most of the bags being pulled.
Hence the delays were NOT caused by pax but the screening process in place at Manchester./QUOTE]
