Grumpy old git in T5 RANT!!!
Feb 18, 2015, 3:52 am
#31
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Haha.... +1 ^ every time, except when I have to navigate security it's after a transat red-eye so I am in a foul mood anyway 
Typical British BS... I want to move to Singapore! At Changi I was in a taxi in 13 minutes... (yes, really 13 minutes!!) from wheels down from HKG, with checked bags!
Typical British BS... I want to move to Singapore! At Changi I was in a taxi in 13 minutes... (yes, really 13 minutes!!) from wheels down from HKG, with checked bags!
Feb 18, 2015, 4:25 am
#32
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Hate to tell you, but Americans aren't the only loud people out there. You just understand what they're saying.
Whenever people tell me Americans don't travel well, I recall the story of two Boozed Up Brits Abroad in a pub in Malta screaming at the landlord for not having Sky and showing the Premier League. "WE USED TO OWN YOU!"
Whenever people tell me Americans don't travel well, I recall the story of two Boozed Up Brits Abroad in a pub in Malta screaming at the landlord for not having Sky and showing the Premier League. "WE USED TO OWN YOU!"
Last edited by SCSA; Feb 18, 2015 at 7:20 am
Feb 18, 2015, 5:17 am
#34
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It's great being an infrequent leisure flyer as one can travel in a better frame of mind especially when you plan it to fall outwith any school holidays.
I can afford to amble through security as I always make sure I arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. I never take my belt,watch or shoes off until I am requested to do so.....usually there is no need to so why bother in the first place?
If I do have some grumpy git behind me I just make a point of going even slower in the hope they are a Flyertalker.
I can afford to amble through security as I always make sure I arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. I never take my belt,watch or shoes off until I am requested to do so.....usually there is no need to so why bother in the first place?
If I do have some grumpy git behind me I just make a point of going even slower in the hope they are a Flyertalker.
Feb 18, 2015, 5:23 am
#35
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Feb 18, 2015, 5:47 am
#36
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My wife removes her belt, watch and shoes and still gets the dreaded beep every time she flies out of LHR. Last time, at Munich while she was removing her shoes, a group of fellow Americans made fun of her about how it's only in the US that she needs to remove her shoes. She answered that she removes them because she does not want to be touched by the security person. And she did get the dreaded beep again. But at least she was not alone, those people making fun of her also got the beep.
Feb 18, 2015, 5:48 am
#37
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Grumpy? Moi? 
I am the nice old bloke who is always fully prepared for Security, carries his passport and BP in his shirt pocket at all times, has no metal parts and smiles sweetly at Security staff and small children.*
I also wonder sometimes about the obviously frequent business flyers [suits, Gold tags, laptop etc.] who get Security palpably wrong. I give them my very best wry smile
* One of those statements may be untrue.
I am the nice old bloke who is always fully prepared for Security, carries his passport and BP in his shirt pocket at all times, has no metal parts and smiles sweetly at Security staff and small children.*
I also wonder sometimes about the obviously frequent business flyers [suits, Gold tags, laptop etc.] who get Security palpably wrong. I give them my very best wry smile
* One of those statements may be untrue.
Feb 18, 2015, 6:15 am
#38
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It's great being an infrequent leisure flyer as one can travel in a better frame of mind especially when you plan it to fall outwith any school holidays.
I can afford to amble through security as I always make sure I arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. I never take my belt,watch or shoes off until I am requested to do so.....usually there is no need to so why bother in the first place?
If I do have some grumpy git behind me I just make a point of going even slower in the hope they are a Flyertalker.
I can afford to amble through security as I always make sure I arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. I never take my belt,watch or shoes off until I am requested to do so.....usually there is no need to so why bother in the first place?
If I do have some grumpy git behind me I just make a point of going even slower in the hope they are a Flyertalker.
Feb 18, 2015, 6:21 am
#39
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Feb 18, 2015, 11:22 am
#42
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Not always. It may have changed as it was a year or two ago, and they accomplish a lot of checks before you get to check in, but Tel Aviv had only 2 people at the x ray machine and arch where at Heathrow you get about 6!
Feb 18, 2015, 11:28 am
#43
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Faultlessly polite/have a clue what they're doing perchance?
Feb 18, 2015, 12:57 pm
#44
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I don't get security in T5. A few more polite notices would surely make the whole process quicker? And why the random beeps*? The old post 9/11 US system (SSSS on the boarding pass) actually worked really well, at the airports where I got caught out**.
* Well they do random beeps at MAN, as well, but it doesn't seem nearly so disruptive (perhaps because MAN has the perv scanner)?
** Didn't hold up me (if anything, it gave me priority) and didn't hold up other passengers.
* Well they do random beeps at MAN, as well, but it doesn't seem nearly so disruptive (perhaps because MAN has the perv scanner)?
** Didn't hold up me (if anything, it gave me priority) and didn't hold up other passengers.
I believe this is because it is the most random way of doing it, ensuring nobody is picked by gender, ethnicity, destination, itinerary etc. This does mean that if the ratio works out that it gets several people at once that happen to be one gender, then you end up having to wait until a security bod of the same sex is available, so hold ups are sometimes inevitable!