All OK for a 12 hour queue at Heathrow?
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The talk of such ridiculous delays helps the cause of the unions, because it increases publicity. But I fully agree that they wouldn't let it take so long.
Suspect we'll have quite a few chancers entering the country via LHR that day though in case the rules get relaxed...
Oh, and everyone where we work has been told to cancel all plans, work etc next Weds. We can't strike, see!
Suspect we'll have quite a few chancers entering the country via LHR that day though in case the rules get relaxed...
Oh, and everyone where we work has been told to cancel all plans, work etc next Weds. We can't strike, see!
I hear from my sister (a teacher) that almost no one she knows is going on strike. It's the union saying 12 hours in this case. I suspect it's because support for the strike is a lot less than they say it is.
If they say 12 hours wait and 50% of passengers don't turn up, even a zero participation rate has disrupted 50% of passengers.
Remember the actual numbers who voted to strike are tiny (a very low typical turnout), only the BBC and the like talk of an overwhelming majority support for industrial action.
If they say 12 hours wait and 50% of passengers don't turn up, even a zero participation rate has disrupted 50% of passengers.
Remember the actual numbers who voted to strike are tiny (a very low typical turnout), only the BBC and the like talk of an overwhelming majority support for industrial action.
Changedmyname said:
Why does anyone want flight delays, when you can have them on the motorways.
But seriously why pay that much money when there is so much here to DRIVE to.
Have you been drinking? There is a world outside Wales. How do people from the USA and China get here to see these things? How do I get to Tokyo for business meetings next week?But seriously why pay that much money when there is so much here to DRIVE to.
12 hours is quite realistic. 30000 pax turn up before 0900 and with only 30% of ukba staff on shift you have gridlock.
Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be s
t at work next week. 
Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be s
t at work next week. LHRFlightman said:
12 hours is quite realistic. 30000 pax turn up before 0900 and with only 30% of ukba staff on shift you have gridlock.
Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be st at work next week.
Scary!Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be s
t at work next week. LHRFlightman said:
12 hours is quite realistic. 30000 pax turn up before 0900 and with only 30% of ukba staff on shift you have gridlock.
Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be st at work next week.
I presume you mean "realistic" from the point of view of calculating how many people you can get through a pinch point (ie the Border desk) if X number of people are arriving and Y number of people can be processed per minute/ hour/ pick a time interval you like.Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be s
t at work next week. "Realistic" can mean something else entirely in these circumstances. It might mean what happens about a family with a couple of kids coming in on an overnight flight, kids squawking that they want their breakfast; it might mean what happens to frail elderly people who can't stand up for all that long, it might mean what happens to a bolshie chav who has been waiting 6 hours for a fag and these barstewards are just making him wait much longer for his fix. It might mean people waiting on the arrivals side to pick up their loved ones, it might mean the absolute chaos caused to legitimate businesses (like car parks, for instance, also in limbo because they've got cars coming in but none going out to free up space.
Etc etc
As I said at the top, if that lot starts to kick off what is going to happen? All these people stand meekly in a queue for 12 hours, or they start to kick up about it? If things get anywhere near as bad as the government have been hinting, there's going to be some major civil disobedience to deal with.
You've got to love the UK. It is wonderful that the government can let the possibility of this sort of thing happening.
From what I understand only forty odd per cent of people turned out to vote and of that forty percent, eighty per cent voted for strike action.
So there is no majority wishing to strike, yet these mindless socialist morons continue to peruse this line of action, threatening massive disruption to legitimate businesses, travellers and hard working people. They are making our precarious financial situation worse, which as they are public sector workers, will only affect them further.
I am flying back into UK on Friday morning and I hope I do not get caught in the tail end of this.
I read somewhere that the country is no longer divided by class, but whether a person works in the private or public sector. This is becoming more readily apparent as we sink deeper into our financial mess.
From what I understand only forty odd per cent of people turned out to vote and of that forty percent, eighty per cent voted for strike action.
So there is no majority wishing to strike, yet these mindless socialist morons continue to peruse this line of action, threatening massive disruption to legitimate businesses, travellers and hard working people. They are making our precarious financial situation worse, which as they are public sector workers, will only affect them further.
I am flying back into UK on Friday morning and I hope I do not get caught in the tail end of this.
I read somewhere that the country is no longer divided by class, but whether a person works in the private or public sector. This is becoming more readily apparent as we sink deeper into our financial mess.
LHRFlightman said:
12 hours is quite realistic. 30000 pax turn up before 0900 and with only 30% of ukba staff on shift you have gridlock.
Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be st at work next week.
Glad I finish my working week (at LHR) at 7am wednesday! Then more aircraft pitch up but you can't open the aircraft doors as the arrivals hall is full. So you have to leave them on the plane. Pax due to leave on that aircraft can't go as its full of arriving pax.
Them more aircraft pitch up. They can't park as by now all the stands are full. So they park in taxiways. Shortly after that the airport is gridlocked.
Its going to be s
t at work next week. 
Well LHR T5 yesterday evening around 5pm ish was an utter shambles.
Only one IRIS machine working.
All the E-passport machines out of use for training purposes, presumably so that the pricks can go on strike next week.
A few desks manned in the section for UK and EU passports, queuing out of the immigration hall and to the door.
About ten desks manned on the section normally used for all other passports, about 3 people wanting to be cleared. The rest of them sat around twiddling thumbs and various other BA staff trying to look busy handling queues that were non existent and studiously avoiding the UK/EU queues that were milling about.
Absolutely no effort to open up new lanes which is what they normally do when such as the IRIS queue builds up, but no, nothing, just stood around like dummies.
Go on fking strike, you utter spasticated useless mongtts, your current pension offer WILL be withdrawn.
Only one IRIS machine working.
All the E-passport machines out of use for training purposes, presumably so that the pricks can go on strike next week.
A few desks manned in the section for UK and EU passports, queuing out of the immigration hall and to the door.
About ten desks manned on the section normally used for all other passports, about 3 people wanting to be cleared. The rest of them sat around twiddling thumbs and various other BA staff trying to look busy handling queues that were non existent and studiously avoiding the UK/EU queues that were milling about.
Absolutely no effort to open up new lanes which is what they normally do when such as the IRIS queue builds up, but no, nothing, just stood around like dummies.
Go on f
king strike, you utter spasticated useless mongtts, your current pension offer WILL be withdrawn.
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