Manchester airport

[peoffrey]

Using Jet2 for Malaga in January!

Is the train from Piccadilly regular? Early start and don't want to spend San Miguel money on a taxi.

 

[Bluemanc100]

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?

I carry inhalers too and have had bags rejected because they were not removed.. they think they are liquid even though they are powder filled I'm sure

 

[Bluemanc100]

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

Flew on the last Comet flight with Dan Dare out of Manchester (Dan-Air) but never a Dakota

 

[TheBlueDune]

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!

And don't forget the weaponry available in duty free - broken bottle anybody? Or in the bar - glass in the face? Or in Boots - aerosols in the eyes? Or any number of solubles that you add the bottles of sports drinking bottles to squirt into eyes.

But whatever you do don't take a deadly lipstick or an inhaler unless it's in a sealable plastic bag.

 

[squirtyflower]

Using Jet2 for Malaga in January!

Is the train from Piccadilly regular? Early start and don't want to spend San Miguel money on a taxi.

They are fairly frequent, just put the time and date into train line.com

 

[remember arthur mann]

I carry inhalers too and have had bags rejected because they were not removed.. they think they are liquid even though they are powder filled I'm sure

Me too, told me there was something in my bag then disappeared for a break, someone picked up on me 15 minutes later to confirm it was inhalers, not short of 2hrs to get through T2.

 

[Sir peace frog]

I go through security everyday as I work there,they take allsorts off us,yogurts,frozen meals knives and now they've started taking forks off us, a story I heard , a pilot went through with his lunch not sure what was in it but half of it was confiscated he said to the security people,im the fucking pilot,if I wanted to bring the plane down I wouldn't need a fucking yogurt

 

[purplenose]

Flew on the last Comet flight with Dan Dare out of Manchester (Dan-Air) but never a Dakota

You lucky sod, I was supposed to fly on a Desperate Dan Comet, but the bloody thing went tech and they used a 727 instead.....Did get to fly on the BAC 1-11 though.

 

[mancitymick]

Terminal 3 is poor TBH. Main gripe will all UK airports is these passport readers at border control. a line of 30 or so, but only 10 turned on

 

[i kne albert davy]

We flew from T3 for game last month shambles, hour an half to get through security,listening to somebody speaking pigeon English trying to explain to somebody who speaks pigeon English that something had shown up on swab test while waiting for our bags nightmare drinking time wasted we'll never get back.