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He would have meant right now because there was and probably is still no space upstairs (I assume until 3 days time) so they are crowd controlling downstairs instead. They can send up 200 people a min that’s more than 10 lanes can process in a min but there’s no way 200 a min could make it through the narrow corridor and speed gates as they were atleast a few weeks back.
If there was were uncontrolled escalators you would risk over crowding and a crush but I’d still say it’s all being handled very badly as there’s way to manage timely flow .. especially when you know your throughput at the scanners and every customer had a way of telling you when their flight is.
Then rightly says when it’s all finished and operational the max flow of the lifts is more than enough … I’m sure they have enough analytics on their own passenger numbers on average, low flow and peak days.
Despite your assertion that the lifts are fine, two sets of escalators have been re-opened to cope with the peak school holiday demand.
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