I flew out last Saturday mid morning and the place was a zoo .. At 0930 queue time at T1 main security was 45 minutes pretty much exactly as advised on the monitors when I joined it ( they were just holding people outside the terminal in their tents and all the tensa barrier stuff inside was full when I joined ) .. I had plenty time and no fast track access .. but fast track didn't look any quicker, if anything the opposite ( much shorter line, but hardly moving at all whereas the main security line was massive but moved very quickly )

I don't know why it's degraded so much from where it used to be .. is it really any busier than it was ? .. All the security lanes appeared to be open when I went through .. so it didn't seem to be staff shortages causing a problem directly last weekend anyway .. Airside was really busy ( probably because they are encouraging people to turn up so early ) .. with the most obvious staff shortage being a lack of cleaners, the place was filthy

Also any idea when they're going to open the new runway ? - It appears to be completely built ( since the start of the year?) , but still remains unused .. Probably not going to help too much given the main problem is the inability to get the passengers through the terminal in a timely manner at peak times .. but when that's eventually sorted it would help keeping things moving too reducing ATC delays