Queue chaos at Airports

[OldGermanHeaps]

When you are waiting for baggage get on the airports wifi. My covid pass worked at the airport in newcastle bet when we landed in ibiza despite roaming being on and me being able to download emails my covid pass said it wasnt valid. Same with my wifes. We faffed around for a bit trying to get it to work until the airport staff just waved us through, same with a few people whose battery had died because we were over 3 hours delayed. Spanish love for rigid beuracracy goes out the window when you are inconveniencing them at 1am and they should have finished shift an hour ago.
Ours is the nhs scotland covid pass, and it seems buggy and st much like the rest of nhs scotland at the minute.

[scouseVR6]

Flying to Turkey week after next from Birmingham airport, anybody got any ideas what the ques are like? we will be flying Monday around noon

[Gazzas86]

scouseVR6 said:

Flying to Turkey week after next from Birmingham airport, anybody got any ideas what the ques are like? we will be flying Monday around noon

Flew from Birmingham on Monday, take-off was 11.30am, Airport was a breeze, zero queues anywhere.

[silobass]

OldGermanHeaps said:

When you are waiting for baggage get on the airports wifi. My covid pass worked at the airport in newcastle bet when we landed in ibiza despite roaming being on and me being able to download emails my covid pass said it wasnt valid. Same with my wifes. We faffed around for a bit trying to get it to work until the airport staff just waved us through, same with a few people whose battery had died because we were over 3 hours delayed. Spanish love for rigid beuracracy goes out the window when you are inconveniencing them at 1am and they should have finished shift an hour ago.
Ours is the nhs scotland covid pass, and it seems buggy and st much like the rest of nhs scotland at the minute.

I had a similar problem when I went to a gig a bit back - got everything set up only to not be able to get wifi or a phone signal in the venue where they were checking everyone

Not going to help you now but I've since found out you can download the pass to your wallet on your iPhone. I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that Android users have something similar?

[craig1912]

Yep, download the pass or screenshot it. Never rely on a mobile signal or wifi.

[Piginapoke]

We’re flying Stansted to Malta on 11 July. Anyone been through STN recently?

[Shnozz]

craig1912 said:

Yep, download the pass or screenshot it. Never rely on a mobile signal or wifi.

Paper copy even better, or at least make sure you have a photo of the QR code or in an apple wallet or similar on another device.

A single point of access can be dropped, or the battery run out, especially in 4 hour+ queues etc or longer.

[Phil Dicky]

Dan_1981 said:

stevemcs said:

Phil Dicky said:

Dan_1981 said:

Flying on Thursday.... 06:05 flight... From Manchester.... With TUI.

Wish me luck.

5.45 to Ibiza with EasyJet, we both need luck

7.05 Ryanair to PMI

Anyone know if you need to upload anything, on the app it says upload your travel documents but nothing online

Manchester Airport PHer meet then!

See you all in the queue. I'll be the frustrated looking bloke dragging a 2 & 5 year old kicking and screaming behind him.

I'll be the 50 something with jis Mrs and another couple, probably pissed laughing at all the struggling family men.

[Welshbeef]

Who thinks August will be smooth running?

[anonymous-user]

Welshbeef said:

Who thinks August will be smooth running?

Depends which airport what time of day and what airline obviously. There’s airports running smoothly right now. Even some of the worse affected airports will depend on which airline or time of day.

[Starfighter]

1 hour to clear immigration at LHR T2 this evening. That beats the 45 minutes 2 weeks ago.

[cranford10]

Piginapoke said:

We’re flying Stansted to Malta on 11 July. Anyone been through STN recently?

Fly from there 4 weeks ago. Was a breeze - apparently STN recruited a lot of staff over the past year so are not suffering like other airports. We had fast track through security any way but very little queues on the normal route it seems.

There have been some issues coming back through Passport control but I guess that is if a few flights land at the same time.

All in all , pretty much like it was pre COVID so all good for us

[Piginapoke]

cranford10 said:

Piginapoke said:

We’re flying Stansted to Malta on 11 July. Anyone been through STN recently?

Fly from there 4 weeks ago. Was a breeze - apparently STN recruited a lot of staff over the past year so are not suffering like other airports. We had fast track through security any way but very little queues on the normal route it seems.

There have been some issues coming back through Passport control but I guess that is if a few flights land at the same time.

All in all , pretty much like it was pre COVID so all good for us

Excellent, thank you

[downthepub]

Welshbeef said:

Who thinks August will be smooth running?

In early August we are connecting through Montreal from Calgary onto Heathrow with a 45 min window on Air Canada. Suspect that we have two hopes, and Bob's dead. Air travel, according to local media, is disastrous as ours in the UK.

[Dan_1981]

Manchester this morning.

Arrived at 315am bag drop and security waltzed through and was in duty free at 4.

Bars / eateries etc tho absolutely rammed. Queuing to gett into them all.

[djc206]

downthepub said:

In early August we are connecting through Montreal from Calgary onto Heathrow with a 45 min window on Air Canada. Suspect that we have two hopes, and Bob's dead. Air travel, according to local media, is disastrous as ours in the UK.

Well the good news is the Air Canada Montreal to Heathrow flights are habitually late so there’s a chance you will make the connection.

We flew through Calgary last October when domestic travel appeared to be back to relatively normal levels in Canada, no problems at all. Used 3 airports there, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto Pearson. Typical North American airports, rubbish but flowed fine. Not sure how much has changed in the interim?

[Welshbeef]

https://news.sky.com/story/several-flights-cancell...
Several flights cancelled from Heathrow due to 'high passenger numbers'

[djc206]

Welshbeef said:

https://news.sky.com/story/several-flights-cancell...
Several flights cancelled from Heathrow due to 'high passenger numbers'

What a terrible article.

“A total of 30 flights have been removed from the morning schedule as the travel chaos across UK airports continues.”

And then:

“It is expected that 98% of flights out of the airport will operate as planned.”

So that would be minor disruption then wouldn’t it Sky News? Not exactly chaotic by any measure. Especially not given that as also mentioned in the same article most of the affected passengers will be moved onto other flights later in the day. Bloody tabloid journalism.

[Condi]

djc206 said:

Not exactly chaotic by any measure.

30 flights at 200 people per flight is still 6000 unhappy people, most of whom only found out their flights were cancelled having got up early, arrived at the airport and were likely stuck in ques for security or waiting for gates. Not sure how you define chaotic, but it's hardly organised is it?


Any ideas how early to arrive at Heathrow for a flight at the moment? 8am departure from T2. Uggh, sounds like it'll be a very early start.

[mat205125]

Condi said:

djc206 said:

Not exactly chaotic by any measure.

30 flights at 200 people per flight is still 6000 unhappy people, most of whom only found out their flights were cancelled having got up early, arrived at the airport and were likely stuck in ques for security or waiting for gates. Not sure how you define chaotic, but it's hardly organised is it?

Agree, however what's a normal daily cancellation / significant flight delay rate on what gets close to passing for a normal day?