Originally Posted by
flyingfifer
Don't suggest that ! My experience is very mixed, sometimes there is no queue at all at security but sometimes the queue to normal security can be back to the guys who check boarding passes. The thing about NCL is that it can be completely random how long the queue is. I have been caught out turning up for a KLM flight with no fast track privileges to a 25 min queue but mostly for early flights it is 2-3 people
A belated welcome from me as well
flyingfifer, welcome to Flyertalk, welcome to the BA forum. It's good to see you here, so please keep on posting. NCL I know well, and occasionally, during the summer peak / school holidays there can be a few minutes wait to get through. One can more or less predict when it will be, in won't be mid week for example.
But I must admit I also dread when I see a crew turn up at NCL Fast Track (why do they all have to go through together!?) since I can generally get through security more quickly than cabin crew. When one crew team (not BA) tried to barge in front of me, saying they were "running late", I had to point out that the aircraft would not leave without them, but it might well leave without me (and without a hint of DYKWIA-ness, I promise).
Originally Posted by
Caledonian
The new security is a joke.
I went through 3 times in the days leading up to Christmas, and in all cases Fast Track was exactly that, though with the extra walking to get airside it wasn't that much better than the old system. For the benefit of anyone who hasn't been to the new hall, they are doing the same system as LCY and T5 are rolling out, with multiple people filling their trays by the moving belt, using a shelf in between the belt and the passenger. So long as people put the tray side ways on, and put multiple trays on top of each other if necessary, it's a good system. But there is a knack to it.