Manchester airport

[AlgarveBlu]

flew back from terminal 3 yesterday and was amazed again at how slow it's is to get through security there, I do quite a lot of airports in the uk and Europe for one reason or another and only Stan stead compares in delay time.

Waited over half an hour to get to the scanners and then another 20 minutes whilst two of our parties bags got pulled on the other belt for additional checks - 1 had lipstick not in a bag and the other a kids small plastic axe. Proceed to restaurant area where there are about 1000 metal knives readily available for any nutter to pick up and carry on to the flight without any further checks?

I'm all for the additional security and all that but speaking to the security guard in the que he said Manchester airport was not well equipped for the growing numbers of people using it, he said I was lucky as this was a quiet period!

 

[cheddar404]

I've always breezed through terminal 3. Sometimes through security within 10 minutes of being dropped. You should try the Jet 2 area of terminal 1; now that really is shite and would put me off travelling with them.

 

[ell]

Ive always found terminal 3 to be the quickest and most hassle free. If ive not got a bag to drop ive been in the bar with a pint before 15minutes.

 

[remember arthur mann]

I've always breezed through terminal 3. Sometimes through security within 10 minutes of being dropped. You should try the Jet 2 area of terminal 1; now that really is shite and would put me off travelling with them.

Now you tell me !

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

It's all these enigmatic French strangers bringing free attache cases in as gifts

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Went through Terminal 1 on Tuesday morning and my bag was pulled because of my inhaler.
After waiting 15 mins for the women to check the bags of the people in front of me that had been pulled, she took it out the inhaler, checked it, put it in a clear bag and then handed it back to me and said I was all set. .... why put it in a bag?

 

[cheddar404]

Now you tell me !

Haha sorry. It's probably luck of the draw. You might be fine. I wasn't that impressed though; it seemed much more stressful than terminal 3. I'm usually through and sat in the Lion and Antelope having a beer within 25 minutes in terminal 3.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Went through Terminal 1 on Tuesday morning and my bag was pulled because of my inhaler.
After waiting 15 mins for the women to check the bags of the people in front of me that had been pulled, she took it out the inhaler, checked it, put it in a clear bag and then handed it back to me and said I was all set. .... why put it in a bag?

Did it have Morrissey's encrusted man fat on it MES?

 

[purplenose]

I flew on a Dakota out of there once....just saying.

 

[Bluemanc100]

It's all these enigmatic French strangers bringing free attache cases in as gifts

PMSL... she was a northern lass actually and posted it

Rent a small child in T3... they sometimes let families with them through and make others wait... regularly get stuck also because they won't let people with biometric passports go through the normal gates when the bloody useless e-gates (and users) have long queues