Manchester airport: 7 years of renovation, and still a pit!f
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You pull up outside, and they still have the same cold war concrete barricades they've had for three years or more. You still have to lug your stuff across the kerb and across a closed-off access road. Manchester, let's face it: security is not going to get any slacker, so please make this look more like a proper airport, and less like a high security jail!
Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
.
its pretty much the same at all UK airports - try getting a flight to NI from T1 at Heathrow - the gate is what appears to be ex-stock metal culvert tubing.... FFS in summer time - 30C - its like some mad WWII Japanese PoW cap torture session.
I've given up - a few years back I timed getting off plane at Incheon, immigrate, get to taxi, on return check-in and go through security and emigrate.....takes less time than doing T3 to T1 at Heathrow!!!!!!! Same experience at Narita - don't any UK airport bods travel to foreign parts to see how to make airports work? No, they just want to sell s
te and £10 burgers....
I've given up - a few years back I timed getting off plane at Incheon, immigrate, get to taxi, on return check-in and go through security and emigrate.....takes less time than doing T3 to T1 at Heathrow!!!!!!! Same experience at Narita - don't any UK airport bods travel to foreign parts to see how to make airports work? No, they just want to sell s
te and £10 burgers....King Herald said:
You pull up outside, and they still have the same cold war concrete barricades they've had for three years or more. You still have to lug your stuff across the kerb and across a closed-off access road. Manchester, let's face it: security is not going to get any slacker, so please make this look more like a proper airport, and less like a high security jail!
Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
What a Whingeing Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
you are.Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your s
tey moans.HTH.
shy tin ear said:
What a Whingeing you are.
Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your stey moans.
HTH.
Spot the irony. you are.Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your s
tey moans.HTH.
Edited to correct quoting format
Edited by Nolar Dog on Friday 24th July 00:36
shy tin ear said:
King Herald said:
You pull up outside, and they still have the same cold war concrete barricades they've had for three years or more. You still have to lug your stuff across the kerb and across a closed-off access road. Manchester, let's face it: security is not going to get any slacker, so please make this look more like a proper airport, and less like a high security jail!
Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
What a Whingeing Check in hall in has got no better. Queues still lead back so far you are shoving past suitcases and bags to get to your own check in queue. The queue you still have to use despite checking in on-line for your flight to the USA. They don't tell you that you need to check in twice, but they wait until you try to use your printed boarding pass to get through security then they tell you to go back.
They've just opened the new duty free inside, so now, (when you finally pass the new and improved security, with bigger queues than ever, despite the improvements) and you follow the 'Gates' sign..... right into the middle of duty free, then you come back out, against the flow of grockles, as you feel you've gone stray, but there it is: Gates> directly into the claustrophobic and Tesco-esque crowds of the chav-laden Duty Free shop.
So, now you realise you have to meander through the crowded perfume and tobacco racks, shoving past all the tourists and vainly looking for another 'Gates' sign, but there isn't one, just to make sure you wander about even more before you finally get through.
And they are still not finished! There are still miles of boarded up areas inside, awaiting more 'renovations' I guess.
Every ten weeks, for most of the last seven years, I've flown out of terminal 2, and every time I go I re-learn the lay of the land, and every ten weeks I find they have changed just a little bit more. Is this the slowest ever renovation of an international airport in the history of flight?
See, no swearing, no abuse, just the facts, and a good moan.
you are.Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your s
tey moans.HTH.
What was david chassoff supposed to mean...?
physprof said:
its pretty much the same at all UK airports - try getting a flight to NI from T1 at Heathrow - the gate is what appears to be ex-stock metal culvert tubing.... FFS in summer time - 30C - its like some mad WWII Japanese PoW cap torture session.
I've given up - a few years back I timed getting off plane at Incheon, immigrate, get to taxi, on return check-in and go through security and emigrate.....takes less time than doing T3 to T1 at Heathrow!!!!!!! Same experience at Narita - don't any UK airport bods travel to foreign parts to see how to make airports work? No, they just want to sell ste and £10 burgers....
My record is sitting in my bath in downtown Singapore 45 minutes after the wheels of the plane first touched the run way at Changi. Taxi, de-plane, imigration, baggage, East Coast Parkway, run a bath in 45 mins! Changi shows how airports should be....I've given up - a few years back I timed getting off plane at Incheon, immigrate, get to taxi, on return check-in and go through security and emigrate.....takes less time than doing T3 to T1 at Heathrow!!!!!!! Same experience at Narita - don't any UK airport bods travel to foreign parts to see how to make airports work? No, they just want to sell s
te and £10 burgers....Murray993 said:
And look at Gatwick....
I once had an interesting conversation with, well let's not get too specific because only one persom plays this role, but someone from BAA who understands the rationale behind it's terminal designs and a few intersting things came out. Pretty obviously, it't all about generating rental income from retail units, but we all realise that these days. But do we realise that some of these units are paying a proportion of their income as rent rather than a per square foot rate and that BAA deliberately under-provides seating so that passengers will have little option but to wonder aimlessly through the shops...
shy tin ear said:
What a Whingeing you are.
Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your stey moans.
HTH.
What an nice fellow you are. Trying for a bit of trolling are we. T*sser. you are.Let me guess.
1. A southern shandy drinking shirtlifter.
2. A Scouse chav scumbag.
3. From Yarksher. Or Smoggy land.
Grow up, life's too short for your s
tey moans.HTH.
He has a point. Manchester, Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham and Glasgow airports are sh*teholes of the highest order.
Anything that the BAA runs is purely a shopping outlet attached to a runway, with no thought given to actually making the business of travel run smoothly.
As far as UK airports go, Gatwick isn't too bad ... It's fairly easy to navigate round and check-in was a breeze when I was last there 3 months back! The only downside that affected me was the short term parking was expensive and security checks on our return were incredibly slow, under-staffed and it was quite obvious the staff had lost the spirit for the job 
Dallas Fortworth; now that's a nice airport!
Dallas Fortworth; now that's a nice airport!
Edited by Ikemi on Friday 24th July 11:28
Was in Manchester a few weeks ago, you're dead right, directing all passengers right through the centre of a duty free shop is a pisstake of the highest order, not even a direct wide path, you have to skirt past all the perfume and toblerone displays
and if you use their luggage trolleys (over the kerbs and through the concrete blocks, down the car ramp), there's nowhere to lock them back up in the short stay car park to get your pound/euro back
I was flying with Ryanair, to "not anywhere near Düsseldorf" Weeze aka RAF Laarbruch and negotiating Manchester airport was easily the worst part of the trip
Landing there, all the passengers were confronted by a dead end corridor and a locked door in amongst the maze of upstairs downstairs along a bit up another stair, down another (broken) escalator
Only some judicious banging on a glass wall attracted the attention of one sullen fluoro-vested numpty who grunted that the previous passenger must have closed the door
What a craphole
and if you use their luggage trolleys (over the kerbs and through the concrete blocks, down the car ramp), there's nowhere to lock them back up in the short stay car park to get your pound/euro back
I was flying with Ryanair, to "not anywhere near Düsseldorf" Weeze aka RAF Laarbruch and negotiating Manchester airport was easily the worst part of the trip
Landing there, all the passengers were confronted by a dead end corridor and a locked door in amongst the maze of upstairs downstairs along a bit up another stair, down another (broken) escalator
Only some judicious banging on a glass wall attracted the attention of one sullen fluoro-vested numpty who grunted that the previous passenger must have closed the door
What a craphole
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