Manchester Airport. How can it be so bad?
Discussion
Monkeylegend said:
It is £7 now at Stansted, £25 if you are more than 15 mins, and £10 for up to 30 mins in the short term car park and £18 for an hour.
I remember in the not to distant past when drop off was free along with 30 minutes in the car park.
In comparison, I dropped my father in law off at Paris Orly 3 weeks ago. Parking at the terminal, took him in, got him checked in with the airline and on to the Assisted Boarding area where we booked him in, got a coffee, a bit of a chat then I left him to wait for his flight. About 1 hour 10 mins or thereabouts and 9€ for the parking. Drop off is still free under 10 mins ISTRI remember in the not to distant past when drop off was free along with 30 minutes in the car park.
Rushjob said:
Monkeylegend said:
It is £7 now at Stansted, £25 if you are more than 15 mins, and £10 for up to 30 mins in the short term car park and £18 for an hour.
I remember in the not to distant past when drop off was free along with 30 minutes in the car park.
In comparison, I dropped my father in law off at Paris Orly 3 weeks ago. Parking at the terminal, took him in, got him checked in with the airline and on to the Assisted Boarding area where we booked him in, got a coffee, a bit of a chat then I left him to wait for his flight. About 1 hour 10 mins or thereabouts and 9€ for the parking. Drop off is still free under 10 mins ISTRI remember in the not to distant past when drop off was free along with 30 minutes in the car park.
Just use a third party meet and greet parking service. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stranger-lea...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stranger-lea...
Main problem is nobody wants to work there. They have vacancies in every department according to Facebook. Baggage handlers have been supplemented with staff from other areas (the firemen refused iirc) at peak times.
T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
lrdisco said:
Fly weekly through Manchester. Fast track and security can still take 40 minutes.
Dublin 80 minutes through Fast Track last week!
Hate flying.
If everyone starts paying for fast track then that queue will get longer I guess!Dublin 80 minutes through Fast Track last week!
Hate flying.
Didn't have too much trouble when we flew out in January with a 1130 flight _ based on this thread not looking forward to next Friday when we have a 830 am flight.
Aiming to arrive at 6am now
andy43 said:
Main problem is nobody wants to work there. They have vacancies in every department according to Facebook. Baggage handlers have been supplemented with staff from other areas (the firemen refused iirc) at peak times.
T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
Yup this.T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
Manchester was always a bit poor but after the mass lay offs during the pandemic, they simply can’t get people in (in multiple roles) now as demand ramps up.
So basically it’s all the same issues pre pandemic but now much worse as the airport infrastructure has become more creaky during low periods of use and now there’s far less employees everywhere.
It’s a massive mess.
El stovey said:
andy43 said:
Main problem is nobody wants to work there. They have vacancies in every department according to Facebook. Baggage handlers have been supplemented with staff from other areas (the firemen refused iirc) at peak times.
T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
Yup this.T2 is new, redesigned and not fit for purpose - the new baggage conveyors are constantly breaking down. On the basis of our last T2 experience Jet2 is off our list now, it was just hopeless - in February! August could be fun.
Meet and greet drop off now consists of a bank of computer terminals, one member of staff and total confusion, although to be fair the key collection was easier. Stupid money now though - Uber is infinitely preferable if you’re reasonably local.
Manchester was always a bit poor but after the mass lay offs during the pandemic, they simply can’t get people in (in multiple roles) now as demand ramps up.
So basically it’s all the same issues pre pandemic but now much worse as the airport infrastructure has become more creaky during low periods of use and now there’s far less employees everywhere.
It’s a massive mess.
I would say roll up your sleeves and help. but you no doubt already wear those horrid short-sleeved numbers with epaulettes, don't you. And you can take off that poncy traffic warden hat with scambled egg on it too.
.Deep Thought said:
paulguitar said:
Deep Thought said:
What bemuses me is all the signs that say you must have all liquids in the one plastic bag and they must be less than 100ml the whole way in, theres signs everywhere, and still there will be a load of Karens who think that didnt actually apply to them who'll then take up a security officers time as she hunts through her bag for spurious liquids.
Absolutely, the f
kwittery seen time after time at security makes a bad situation much worse. They even came around and called out to people in advance everything they needed to do to get through smoothly and STILL some people think it doesnt apply to them.
I honestly feel at times like going "sorry, talk me through how that f
king big sign there telling you to remove electrical devices and liquids from your bag DIDNT apply to you and your laptop and deodorants?"Idiots.
Countless times I've been stuck behind some gormless t
t who's walked past the signs, ignored the announcements, ignored the security staff walking round giving out the message, chatting or on the phone and then arriving at security only to have a 10-minute argument with some poor security officer because she can't take several 1 litre bottles of gunk through and she's left all her electrical items in the bags and then, when she walks though the scanner, it's bleeping fit to bust because she's chandelier with all sort of metal stuff she 'didn't know' she had to put in the trays (which she's used 6 of). And their excuse? How can they not know how many flights/people to expect? And I simply do not believe that 60% of bags are being rejected.
"Today, we saw more people than we were expecting, which put a considerable strain on our operation. This was compounded by up to 60% of customer bags being rejected as they passed through security because they contained restricted items – a much higher rate than we typically experience.“
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...
"Today, we saw more people than we were expecting, which put a considerable strain on our operation. This was compounded by up to 60% of customer bags being rejected as they passed through security because they contained restricted items – a much higher rate than we typically experience.“
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...
Ronstein said:
Deep Thought said:
paulguitar said:
Deep Thought said:
What bemuses me is all the signs that say you must have all liquids in the one plastic bag and they must be less than 100ml the whole way in, theres signs everywhere, and still there will be a load of Karens who think that didnt actually apply to them who'll then take up a security officers time as she hunts through her bag for spurious liquids.
Absolutely, the fkwittery seen time after time at security makes a bad situation much worse. They even came around and called out to people in advance everything they needed to do to get through smoothly and STILL some people think it doesnt apply to them.
I honestly feel at times like going "sorry, talk me through how that f
king big sign there telling you to remove electrical devices and liquids from your bag DIDNT apply to you and your laptop and deodorants?"Idiots.
Countless times I've been stuck behind some gormless t
t who's walked past the signs, ignored the announcements, ignored the security staff walking round giving out the message, chatting or on the phone and then arriving at security only to have a 10-minute argument with some poor security officer because she can't take several 1 litre bottles of gunk through and she's left all her electrical items in the bags and then, when she walks though the scanner, it's bleeping fit to bust because she's chandelier with all sort of metal stuff she 'didn't know' she had to put in the trays (which she's used 6 of). Louis Balfour said:
The pilots need to chip in and help.
I would say roll up your sleeves and help. but you no doubt already wear those horrid short-sleeved numbers with epaulettes, don't you. And you can take off that poncy traffic warden hat with scambled egg on it too..
You’re just jealous because your mrs said pilots are sexy. I would say roll up your sleeves and help. but you no doubt already wear those horrid short-sleeved numbers with epaulettes, don't you. And you can take off that poncy traffic warden hat with scambled egg on it too.
.jhiker said:
And their excuse? How can they not know how many flights/people to expect? And I simply do not believe that 60% of bags are being rejected.
"Today, we saw more people than we were expecting, which put a considerable strain on our operation. This was compounded by up to 60% of customer bags being rejected as they passed through security because they contained restricted items – a much higher rate than we typically experience.“
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...
How can an airport be surprised by the number of people? Surely they can hook into the ticketing system so that they can know almost exactly how many people to expect."Today, we saw more people than we were expecting, which put a considerable strain on our operation. This was compounded by up to 60% of customer bags being rejected as they passed through security because they contained restricted items – a much higher rate than we typically experience.“
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...
Sheepshanks said:
I don't know - whenever I fly the delay always seems to be the scanners themselves, it doesn't really matter how much faffing there is at the input, the staff are still waiting to load trays.
They tend to not be able to put them on / get them through if they are tailed back at the other side, awaiting manual searching.I've seen a few rare instances where the person using the scanner was just ridiculously slow but generally its stuff not able to get out the other side of the scanner.
Edited by Deep Thought on Thursday 17th March 20:09
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