Melbourne International Terminal 'evacuated'
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Melbourne International Terminal 'evacuated'
Screening ****-up 8:45 on a Sunday morning..
I'd probably rather hear "We eventually caught the bad guy who attempted to slip through security, sorry for the delay..."
Are we going to have to put up with this rubbish forever or will common sense eventually prevail?
Ms Gillett said the evacuation was “procedural” and done only as a precaution.
“There’s no danger posed to anyone, there’s absolutely no risk,” she said.
“There’s no danger posed to anyone, there’s absolutely no risk,” she said.
Are we going to have to put up with this rubbish forever or will common sense eventually prevail?
Someone obviously made a mistake. Maybe one of the customs officers forgot they were at work and spoke politely to a traveller or security personal forgot to check inside a pilots hat? Either of those two things would be such a departure from the norm that rescreening would definitely be warranted.
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These 'mistakes' keep happening far too regularly - delays up to 5 hours today.
The airlines should send the security company the bill - and then the passengers can also add any additional costs they have endured.
The airlines should send the security company the bill - and then the passengers can also add any additional costs they have endured.
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Maybe one of the customs officers forgot they were at work and spoke politely to a traveller
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I was there
Not a good day for the Airport. I was on the EK406 to AKL, which was already 4 hours late. Around 0855 we were told we had to go back through screening, something had happened and an individual had managed to get through the screening checks. All gates were full, so in bounds were parked where they could go. Lucky for me they found a gate for the EK as soon as it landed, not so lucky were the CZ, MU, QF, UA, SQ and NZ guys. Problem then was that all staff and equipment were out of position and working like crazy. Due to lack of equipment our revised departure time of 1215, ended up being 1430. Compared with the EWR fiasco 4 years ago, yep was in that one too, this was handled well. I do question the number of pax that had to be re-screened, they say 1700, I would say double that.
I arrived safely in AKL, that is the critical thing.
I arrived safely in AKL, that is the critical thing.
short flights long nights
It's just all mad. Did anyone get screened getting on the bus/taxi/train that took them too the airport? Talk about complete overkill and smoke screen.
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Security is a joke - if it takes this long to identify a problem, evacuate everyone and reprocess, the bad guys are laughing. The security who caused the problem are then meant to try and organise all the stranded people - all you saw last night on the news was the lack of organisation, no messages (probably blame the airport), queues outside the front door.........
