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Old Dec 9, 2016 | 6:23 pm
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It is always possible to miss flights due to traffic en route to the airport, especially in Auckland. This is nothing new. Accidents. Long weekends. Bad weather. Big events. All cause problems.

Originally Posted by sbiddle
Speaking of delays the queue for screening at WLG this morning for gates 21-25 (JQ and NZ gates on the JQ side) extended all the way from those gates back to the Relay store causing flight delays.
A few weeks ago my flight from gate 25 was nearly an hour late departing despite the inbound aircraft being on time, solely because there was only two security lanes (the maximum in the space) for 4 very full A320 flights all trying to leave at the same time. Security ended up calling each flight by flight to be processed, rather than the usual first in first out.
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