LHR T5 Security Fast Track Etiquette - Dressing at Belt / Placing Tray at the end
Mar 14, 2017, 3:09 pm
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For those you that use LHR T5 Fast Track Security
1) Prepare while in Queue to place your baggage on belt. So annoying that some travellers get to the belt and start preparing!
2) Once your tray has gone through the scanner, please do not start getting dressed at the belt and re-packing your carry on. Use the tables and seats provided. By doing so at the belt you are delaying trays going through!
3) Place your tray at the end when empty, do not leave it on the belt.
4) Every week when i fly i see inconsiderate travellers (mostly with BA Gold tags on their bags) not following the above 3 Points.
5) Is it because you think you are a SNOB or can you really not read English. The signs are posted above the belts.
6) I have now decided to loudly shame People who can clearly read english but are clearly snobbish !
This is mostly the men but also women.
1) Prepare while in Queue to place your baggage on belt. So annoying that some travellers get to the belt and start preparing!
2) Once your tray has gone through the scanner, please do not start getting dressed at the belt and re-packing your carry on. Use the tables and seats provided. By doing so at the belt you are delaying trays going through!
3) Place your tray at the end when empty, do not leave it on the belt.
4) Every week when i fly i see inconsiderate travellers (mostly with BA Gold tags on their bags) not following the above 3 Points.
5) Is it because you think you are a SNOB or can you really not read English. The signs are posted above the belts.
6) I have now decided to loudly shame People who can clearly read english but are clearly snobbish !
This is mostly the men but also women.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:10 pm
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I started the shaming on Monday this week after 3 Gold members left the complete belt after scanner with empty trays blocking anything else coming through. Please Mr Ambassador PETER01 .. do not tell what i can or cannot say in public.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:11 pm
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Who do you think you are... "I have now decided to loudly shame People who can clearly read english but are clearly snobbish"
Maybe chill out a bit, worry about your own life, and stop getting irate about what other people do ^
Maybe chill out a bit, worry about your own life, and stop getting irate about what other people do ^
Last edited by NWIFlyer; Mar 14, 2017 at 4:22 pm Reason: Remove shorthand for swearing
Mar 14, 2017, 3:12 pm
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If the individuals are causing a delay to me getting my bags ... AND they are frequent travellers (mostly BA GOLD as i mentioned) and they consider themselves as SNOBS (which most of them do) and feel they should leave their emty trays on the belt.
Then I have everyright to shae them in public.
Then I have everyright to shae them in public.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:14 pm
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I started the shaming on Monday this week after 3 Gold members left the complete belt after scanner with empty trays blocking anything else coming through. Please Mr Ambassador PETER01 .. do not tell what i can or cannot say in public.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
I am not going to collect my laptop, place it on a table and then wait for my carryon to make it through as I was assigned place 4 and place 1/2/3 each push their trays in ahead of me.
Shame whoever you like, no one will think much of you.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:16 pm
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I started the shaming on Monday this week after 3 Gold members left the complete belt after scanner with empty trays blocking anything else coming through. Please Mr Ambassador PETER01 .. do not tell what i can or cannot say in public.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
For your record .... all the passengers behind me in the Queue absolutely agreed.
However what I will say if you were to start shouting at them, possibly alarming or frightening them, then you are leaving yourself wide open for a potential meet with the authorities.
I would suggest of you are not happy then to ask the staff to remind passengers to put them away or write in etc.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:21 pm
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By no means i am shouting or abusing or alarming or frightening them.
Shaming is a way of saying to the traveller that please read the signs about trays.
The word loudly means openly. Not in a harrassing way.
Can the People on this Forum that want to have a genuine discussion on this Topic please stay.
Shaming is a way of saying to the traveller that please read the signs about trays.
The word loudly means openly. Not in a harrassing way.
Can the People on this Forum that want to have a genuine discussion on this Topic please stay.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:22 pm
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Mar 14, 2017, 3:22 pm
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I'm a four tray sort of chap.
1. Laptops +LAG's
2. Backpack*
3. Roll-aboard*
4. Scottevest Jacket"
Rarely do all four come out one after another. To me this is the major failing of the T5 security setup.
Security at T5 is just an occupational hazard. It is frustrating but no amount of "shaming" will improve the experience for me.
*Within the limits allowed by BA
"The jacket includes phones/iPad/batteries etc etc.
1. Laptops +LAG's
2. Backpack*
3. Roll-aboard*
4. Scottevest Jacket"
Rarely do all four come out one after another. To me this is the major failing of the T5 security setup.
Security at T5 is just an occupational hazard. It is frustrating but no amount of "shaming" will improve the experience for me.
*Within the limits allowed by BA
"The jacket includes phones/iPad/batteries etc etc.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:26 pm
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By no means i am shouting or abusing or alarming or frightening them.
Shaming is a way of saying to the traveller that please read the signs about trays.
The word loudly means openly. Not in a harrassing way.
Can the People on this Forum that want to have a genuine discussion on this Topic please stay.
Shaming is a way of saying to the traveller that please read the signs about trays.
The word loudly means openly. Not in a harrassing way.
Can the People on this Forum that want to have a genuine discussion on this Topic please stay.
'loudly shaming' in English, which I appreciate may not be your first language or you have misinterpreted the way Brits would read that, very much means DYKWIA type behaviour.
Mar 14, 2017, 3:27 pm
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Mar 14, 2017, 3:30 pm
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The current tray system is actually worse than it was before where empty trays were auto-loaded into a stack that distributed them back to the start of the queue. Not sure why they had to change it (trays are bigger though).
That said, really not a fan when people find it too much for them to place their empty tray into the stack. It's not too much to ask.
That said, really not a fan when people find it too much for them to place their empty tray into the stack. It's not too much to ask.