Originally Posted by BahrainLad
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).
So it's fine if they get to the planes in a timely fashion, but then there are multiple accidents on the airfield, killing thousands of those passengers?
'Oh well, at least they boarded on time' would be their epitaph.
No, pax movements are also not the only measure of how an airport is. I'd rather use an airport which is inefficent and safe than an airport which is efficient and unsafe. Just my choice though - believing that my life is more important than inconvenience. (And no, i'm not referencing specifically security... i'm talking about all the myriad things that airports have to do to ensure safe movement of aircraft on the airfield for example...)