airport queues

Johnnyweetabix

Johnnyweetabix

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Yuk . Anyone travelled recently . I’ve done a number of airports in the past few weeks . Schiphol twice and both were 2.5 ish hours, Leeds was 2, Copenhagen 1.5

Is the the new normal allowing 4 hours check in and passport control just to be safe ?

Gonna kill the industry and will be bedlam once the holiday season starts
 
Johnnyweetabix said:
Yuk . Anyone travelled recently . I’ve done a number of airports in the past few weeks . Schiphol twice and both were 2.5 ish hours, Leeds was 2, Copenhagen 1.5

Is the the new normal allowing 4 hours check in and passport control just to be safe ?

Gonna kill the industry and will be bedlam once the holiday season starts
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Did you do preflight check in -think that would decrease time
 
Cecil J McTumshie said:
Did you do preflight check in -think that would decrease time
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The check in wasn't the problem for us, lots of staff and through in 2 minutes, then you hit the security check.

The problem was the number of lanes open, not enough staff to open more.

My next door neighbour works in airport security, he said the problem is that all of the contract security staff were made redundant during Covid. Now they're struggling to recruit their replacements.

We'd checked in online as just about everybody does, we were flying out of Leeds with Jet2 and their were red uniforms everywhere. If you hadn't checked in online you would have had no problem.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
The check in wasn't the problem for us, lots of staff and through in 2 minutes, then you hit the security check.

The problem was the number of lanes open, not enough staff to open more.

My next door neighbour works in airport security, he said the problem is that all of the contract security staff were made redundant during Covid. Now they're struggling to recruit their replacements.

We'd checked in online as just about everybody does, we were flying out of Leeds with Jet2 and their were red uniforms everywhere. If you hadn't checked in online you would have had no problem.
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A friend of ours worked as part of the cabin crew for Jet2 and was paid off during the pandemic. He's now been invited back to do the same job for a lot less money.

This is happening in a lot of sectors and they wonder why they can't attract the staff back.
 
Flew from Newcastle recently, queues were quite big but we paid for the fast track and went straight through passport control and security check no problem. £6 for the fast track. Worth every single penny.
 
I’ve also done Newcastle a few times recently and it was ok . It is the security checks that are taking forever at some airports and it’s totally hit and miss . I’ve only heard hand luggage also but it’s becoming really a mess on as you can’t tell if it’s gonna be 3 mins or 3 hours .

At Schiphol now and they had about 20% of the bag scanners working , Manchester yesterday was 2 out of 14 I counted being used
 
Going from Leeds on Saturday. Have checked in online and booked fast track security. I am hoping that will make it as pain free as possible.
 
edinboro said:
Going from Leeds on Saturday. Have checked in online and booked fast track security. I am hoping that will make it as pain free as possible.
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Friend has just flew from there yesterday . Said the queue was about 1.5 hours if that helps . They flew about 6am ish I think
 
Johnnyweetabix said:
Friend has just flew from there yesterday . Said the queue was about 1.5 hours if that helps . They flew about 6am ish I think
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Cheers. Apparently on a Saturday night there's not that many flights so queues are not too bad. Just me and my son going so hoping it's ok.
 
Flew from Leeds a few weeks ago. We checked in luggage night before (Jet2 twilight) so straight to passport control on the morning of flight. We had fast track - an absolute essential for peace of mind at the moment. Queue at passport control was two hours in itself, we were through in 4 minutes. People on our flight had to be found and pulled out of passport control queue by staff as the flight time got closer. Lot of anxiety. For a couple of quid fast track is well worth it.
 
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