Is Manchester airport the worst in Europe?

[Blue Mist]

Has it ? Which one ? I know the Airport pub is Robbies.

Beer and food in Terminal 1 is a disgrace. Think Terminal 2 gets Seven Bro7thers.

I think it is terminal 2 that has Joeys. Can thingymibob confirm (or what ever he's called ?)
@JOGAMIGMOG

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

I think it is terminal 2 that has Joeys. Can thingymibob confirm (or what ever he's called ?)
@JOGAMIGMOG

Yes, it’s in T2.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

I might have misheard but l thought BBC NW headlines said police are be brought in to work at the airport. Will watch carefully to see how these police officers will be deployed.

 

[bonespost]

Bridgewater Exchange in Terminal 2

Bridgewater Exchange - Joseph Holt

The Bridgewater Exchange in Terminal 2 of Manchester Airport is the place to get your holiday started! With authentic design features throughout, the Bridgewater Exchange gives you the real pub experience with a difference – it’s here where you’ll be able to relax your way into your trip and get...

www.joseph-holt.com

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I might have misheard but l thought BBC NW headlines said police are be brought in to work at the airport. Will watch carefully to see how these police officers will be deployed.

Police and fire staff could be drafted in to help with Manchester Airport chaos

Mayor Andy Burnham will be meeting with the airport's management

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Good luck with that. The police have got enough to do with police work and are short at doing that. Not sure about the water fairies but you can be sure they will say the same. This an airport issue Shirley, can't drag in others to fix it

 

[Ric]

The fast track is a scam but in the current climate really makes sense especially if you are travelling with your kids. Your timing's perfect as it looks like you are to be blessed with good weather to change this Wednesday and Thursday with averages of 21c.

The last three weeks in Majorca have been poor to middling so maybe there's something to be said for global warming climate effects. We have had a quite a few pleasant days of around 18c but the general consensus has been cold wet and windy with waves over 10 feet high. I went for my 7am wobble down the coast road this morning whilst the wife slept in and the wind for lack of a better word was "bracing". Weather forecasters said 11c but the wind chill made it feel more like 8c.

Anyway I'm rambling so I won't except to say I hope you have a nice holiday as you've had to wait a good few years for it to come your way. If I remember rightly it was Pathos you were originally destined pre-Covid.

We brought 6 bottles of Amber Solaire with us and are still on bottle one but as mentioned it is changing with pool weather imminent.

Taken this morning on my speed walk with the sea decidedly calmer than last week

Bit of work to do with the beach to retain it's Blue Flag signature. If only you could bottle sea-weed!

Thanks mate. Yeah it’s been a bit nippy here, especially when the wind gets going! At least it was dry today, I guess. Forecast looking good for Thursday but that’s our last day, hopefully we’ll get to see a bit of sun before we leave though!

 

[ctwrd]

It's the knobheads with a litre of vape juice, £36.40 in pocket change and 4 cans of Lynx Africa causing the hold ups at security. Its like people have either forgotten the security regulations or are just plain fucking stupid.

Bag your liquids. Put your change in your hand luggage, don't be a ****.

There are these people but the situation is categorically not the result of them. It’s a contributory factor but it always is.

there isn’t actually any need to remove shoes, liquids, put things in separate trays so those running the security are making it far harder and slower than it needs to be as well.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Police and fire staff could be drafted in to help with Manchester Airport chaos

Mayor Andy Burnham will be meeting with the airport's management

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Good luck with that. The police have got enough to do with police work and are short at doing that. Not sure about the water fairies but you can be sure they will say the same. This an airport issue Shirley, can't drag in others to fix it

I did hear right although having seen the news and read that article l am still not sure how they and the fire brigade are to be used in some form of casual labour.
A daft idea from Burnham. It's one thing government using the army in peace for various duties but taking the emergency services away from their normal work is barmy. At least he's not got his eyes on the ambulance service.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Bridgewater Exchange in Terminal 2

Bridgewater Exchange - Joseph Holt

The Bridgewater Exchange in Terminal 2 of Manchester Airport is the place to get your holiday started! With authentic design features throughout, the Bridgewater Exchange gives you the real pub experience with a difference – it’s here where you’ll be able to relax your way into your trip and get...

www.joseph-holt.com

Very nice too, had breakfast & a pint in there at the end of November when everything was still reasonably quiet.....not much dearer than a normal Holts pub either.

 

[andyhinch]

I did hear right although having seen the news and read that article l am still not sure how they and the fire brigade are to be used in some form of casual labour.
A daft idea from Burnham. It's one thing government using the army in peace for various duties but taking the emergency services away from their normal work is barmy. At least he's not got his eyes on the ambulance service.

Don’t give he ideas, he’ll want to start using ambulances for luggage trucks next.

 

[Sir peace frog]

There are these people but the situation is categorically not the result of them. It’s a contributory factor but it always is.

there isn’t actually any need to remove shoes, liquids, put things in separate trays so those running the security are making it far harder and slower than it needs to be as well.

remove shoes, the shoe bomber
liquids and laptops ,wiring and explosives

i go through security many times in a day, and if some knobhead(staff) doesn't get their shit together then it takes longer than it should, we get liquids removed , ive seen a pilot lose his yogurt ffs, lighters in a bag ect ect, it is down to lack of trained staff though .

 

[Sir peace frog]

I did hear right although having seen the news and read that article l am still not sure how they and the fire brigade are to be used in some form of casual labour.
A daft idea from Burnham. It's one thing government using the army in peace for various duties but taking the emergency services away from their normal work is barmy. At least he's not got his eyes on the ambulance service.

i presume the police would do the security , not sure about the fire brigade ,maybe if someones having a cheeky smoke they will extinguish them :)

cant see it happening, they have far more important jobs to do than appeasing some frustrated passengers

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

There are these people but the situation is categorically not the result of them. It’s a contributory factor but it always is.

there isn’t actually any need to remove shoes, liquids, put things in separate trays so those running the security are making it far harder and slower than it needs to be as well.

Certain items DO need to be separated as it makes it easier for the scanner operator to identify the items within the trays. If it becomes difficult to identify items within a bag/tray then a hand search will be required to clear the bag airside. This is a major factor in causing hold-ups as their is usually only one bag searcher per scanner. Once that bag searcher is occupied searching a bag the conveyor backs up, especially if there is more than one bag to search.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I did hear right although having seen the news and read that article l am still not sure how they and the fire brigade are to be used in some form of casual labour.
A daft idea from Burnham. It's one thing government using the army in peace for various duties but taking the emergency services away from their normal work is barmy. At least he's not got his eyes on the ambulance service.

Remember the London Olympics when G4S couldn't get their sh*t together and the military were called in to bail them out?

 

[Blue Mist]

i presume the police would do the security , not sure about the fire brigade ,maybe if someones having a cheeky smoke they will extinguish them :)

cant see it happening, they have far more important jobs to do than appeasing some frustrated passengers

It won't happen. Burnham hasn't been in the news for 3 days so he had to say something. This makes it look like he's one of us, a man of the people, yeh right.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Runway 2 reopened now too, so that'll help...

 

[Sir peace frog]

Runway 2 reopened now too, so that'll help...

Yeah,more flight's, more passengers, what could go wrong:)

 

[splinter]

Things can only improve

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Reading through some of the comments on twitter that mention Manchester Airport there seems to be a huge divide between the terminals. Terminal 1 is absolute chaos and where the issues are, Terminal 2 appears relatively calm!

 

[RobMCFC]

Reading through some of the comments on twitter that mention Manchester Airport there seems to be a huge divide between the terminals. Terminal 1 is absolute chaos and where the issues are, Terminal 2 appears relatively calm!

I would imagine that that is because most T2 passengers check in their cases, complete with liquids etc, and then just take a small cabin bag through security. T1 will feature a lot of EasyJet and Ryanair passengers who take their cases through security.