Security was a nightmare this morning, and once again I fell victim to the scanners and ended up waiting in the secondary inspection queue TWICE! First time for a dodgy image, second time for an iPad swab.

Overall rejection rate was probably 10% which is the best I have seen. The time taken for each tray to be processed meant that it was still a significant delay.

The wall body scanners were performing very well, almost no secondary body screening there that I saw. I was told that one of them had broken down already, teething troubles I hope

In total it took fifty minutes from the airport hotel to the lounge which I think is the longest ever at Newcastle.