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.....

More likely requiring LGW to provide effective drone protection would make it less commercially attractive to any potential 'owner' shareholders and their highly numerated directors. Nothing to do with lefties/liberals.

MAN
 

New FR Route MAN-KBP
 

New route from Ryanair: Manchester-Kiev (2 weekly Fri/Mon) from April. On sale now.

has been on sale for ages already

My apologies if I missed it. From what I remember FR had scheduled Kiev flights to start April 18 but has pulled them for some reason. I didn't realise they had reinstated them.

If, as I did ,you complain to the supervisor stood watching the particular shambles, they give you a smug smile and tell you that they do it much better at Manchester than other airports in the UK...
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

I've had this too. Someone has been drumming this into them repeatedly it seems, he smirked as he referred to "The Manchester Way" of doing it "properly". In his mind, LHR and LGW were dangerously lax, God only knows what he would have made of the TSA who allowed me to drink my forgotten bottled water post security before proceeding. The MAN chap was adamant I would NOT be allowed to even touch it, as to quote him, "I could drink it and blow myself up." THIS has been taught to them.

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.

During 'the winter months' shoes are to be removed if the walk through device goes off with a random alert. The reason? Because the de-icing grit that is spread outside the door will set off the 'sniffer' explosive detector that is used to swab your hands and shoes normally.

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...