Originally Posted by
HaleiwaFlyer
Takes me 5-10 minutes to just get my luggage from the CT scanners, after going through the body scanners due to the inefficient system of people constantly shoving their trays in front of the people in front of them….
Would be faster if they just allow each person to pass all of their items through at once…..rather than the current system….
Sure, early morning arrivals with no one, I can get through in 10 minutes…..during regular high traffic flow, forget about it….
LHR just has a slow security screening set up…..no other way to sugar coat it…
The reason is some airports still use non CT scanners….you will see the same effect in the US, TSA precheck with regular X-ray luggage scanner lines going much faster than the new CT scanners that are slow as molasses.
plenty of airports have the 4 loading bay concept, with the new scanners T3 has reduced the loading bays which helps
I am hoping the new scanner idea removes the need for that and its back to just a queue format. That issue is not down to the airport being old and badly designed. In a perfect world it means you do not get held up too long because someone takes 15 minutes to remove all the things they need from their bag and put things in the plastic bag. Airports that do not have the loading bay concept you see this happen. Swings and roudabouts.
At T3 and at T5 over the last few months I have not had any queue at transit security and got through very quickly. Maybe I am just lucky.
I also meet colleagues in the T3 lounge who have transited over from T5 on a Sunday morning arrival for an 8:55 departure. They have never had queues at T3 transit security even at 7am.
I also only see people talk about the security experience. That is only a small part of the transit experience, the topic of the thread