Departed from RAK last Saturday (6th January) afternoon travelling CE. No mobile boarding pass option. No print your own boarding pass option. Have to collect boarding pass from check in counter.

100+ metre long lines snaking across forecourt just to enter the terminal building. Thirty minute wait to get into the terminal building through the slow initial security check

No one in front of use at BA check in but luggage belts down so no one able to check in or have boarding passes issued for about 20 minutes even if no luggage to check. Check in lady said the luggage belt system was new and always breaking down.

Travelling in CE or with silver upwards status gets you fast track exit customs, security and passport control which is slow just not as slow as non fast track which looked horrendous.

Once through passport control another line to join for another official to check you have a exit stamp in your passport after the passport check you've just completed ! The whole airport is a bureacrats dream.

From getting out of a taxi to sitting in the lounge took 1 hrs 25 even with fast track and we weren't trying to hang around.

They were also selecting about 50% of passengers for further security check (bags opened, electronics checked, bag checked with a swab, shoes swabbed etc) at the gate with only two staff doing this very slowly.