Originally Posted by Jenbel
He's just another passenger who only sees one side of airport operations, and has no real inkling of all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. It's very easy to criticise something you don't know an awful lot about, but think you do. Yes, their handling of the security has been awful. But security is not the be all and end all of an airport, or indeed the only measure of how an airport is run.
The be all and end all and the
only measure of how well an airport should be run is the efficiency with which it processes passengers. That is its
raison d'etre, its purpose. Security, a core component of passenger processing along with baggage handling, car parking etc. etc. should always take primacy over shopping (totally non-essential to the processing of passengers).