Greetings from the rather spiffy Ahlein lounge at BEY.
I just timed my journey to the lounge to provide a data point.
On the 8am flight(with HBO and Y)
05.59 arrive
06.01 first boarding card check complete (no scan).
06.04 check in complete (included short chat about the weather , new lounge and security arrangements etc)
06.09 security completed
06.11 passport control completed (note the new staggered desks were mostly finished and being used)
06.14 lounge arrival
So 15 minutes soup to nuts for that. I’ll report back on the later bit , if anything of interest!
Edit:
Update on boarding .
They called us to boarding an hour before departure, and we actually started boarding 40 minutes before departure.
We boarded from gate 12. The airport is small and it was a three or four minute walk .
The extra security check was by hand , no machines and liquids seemed ok by this point so no problem re-filling water bottles etc in the lounge.
The manager had great fun organising some old BMI tensa-barriers into a complicated spider like arrangement which worked very well corralling the various group numbers into the right place and the process was good.
All in all a very straightforward affair and if I was doing again I might shave another twenty minutes or so off my arrival time .
Last edited by Woodbinerich; Oct 13, 2019 at 4:47 am