Reply To: BHX Birmingham airport hell; move over, Manchester!

[TGLoyalty]

@AFKAE the queues downstairs ARE intentional … they aren’t letting people freely upstairs but holding people back to allow space to open up

Here’s a very detailed Twitter thread https://x.com/nickhorner/status/1803686855348486594?s=46

Shows exactly what I’ve been saying … the poster walked past long queues upstairs to get to the back of the queue outside.

Took 30 mins to get back upstairs, which didn’t include any pre screening they want to set up.

Then 45 mins to get through security once he was upstairs, they are getting people up 33% faster than they can get them through security.

Which was better than last week as 6 ilo 5 of the 7 machines were in operation. What you’ll find is when the space opens up stairs there will be no queues at the lifts but plenty to the scanners.

If they really want to speed things up they need to have a pre fight cut off time for entry as far too many people are turning up way before they need to and it’s causing extra congestion in already peak security hours.

https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/birmingham-airport-boss-says-queuing-issues-will-be-fixed-for-summer-peak-46991