Landside to Z
Question:
From landside to Z gates early morning. Upstairs entry seems to open at 6:30am. Was there a couple of weeks ago on a Monday morning with a line by 6:15am. 6:30am boarding card control opens, and leads to a single outgoing passport control officer, who was alternating calling customers from EU and Non-EU lines. This took 30 minutes to get through. No automated gates open. No security line after that as passport control had metered the flow.
Any better way to do this? "A" entry downstairs was open but backed up halfway in to the first class check in area. Possibly enter at B, tunnel to A and then through passport control up to Z? Or landside train from B to "Travellers only A/Z" station and then do security and passport there on the way to Z? Lounge was already busy when I got there so people must have come from somewhere?