If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
The checks - known as the Advanced Passenger Information System - will
be mandatory from this summer, adding crucial extra minutes to the check-in process, said Travel Trade Gazette magazine. The head of regulation at holiday firm First Choice, one of Britain's biggest, said: "If it takes an extra half a minute per passenger to collect this information, you are looking at an extra three hours' check-in for a full 767. This would create an enormous number of people congreating at airports." Passengers are already told to allow three hours for checkin, causing huge queues at Heathrow and Gatwick. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffic/articles/10318727 All this draws me to the conclusion that rowing the Atlantic would actually get me to my destination faster. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:23:04 GMT, "colin." wrote:
But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. There won't be 6 hour check in on a schedule airline. If you read the article the comments come from a charter airline, and none of these use Heathrow, and between them and the journalist there is a real shortage of any hard evidence to support their claims. -- Lansbury www.uk-air.net FAQs for the alt.travel.uk.air newsgroup |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
"colin." wrote in message ...
Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. they need it to winkle out all the muslim scumbags and assorted terrorists- the UK is major terrorist enclave. hence the need for stringent checks. Blame Tony Blair and his lack of enforcement on illegals .... |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
"Brian" wrote in message ... mrtravelkay wrote: That was 3 hours total added check in time, not for each passenger. Presumably the 3 hours would be divided by the number of check in queues. That's not what was said in the article. It seemed to assume that there's only one person checking in the whole plane. Hmm maybe Easyjet is going to fly trans Atlantic. They always seem to have only one person checking people in 8-) |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
My terrible Dragoman experience in Africa | Nadine S. | Africa | 5 | April 26th, 2004 06:54 PM |
Safety board wants airline passengers weighed | Jean C | Air travel | 49 | March 15th, 2004 08:31 PM |
TSA fining passengers with "attitude" | flyer | Air travel | 59 | March 5th, 2004 02:51 PM |
JetBlue Gave Defense Firm Files on Passengers | citizen | Air travel | 13 | September 24th, 2003 07:43 PM |
Passengers tell of Concorde horror | Chanchao | Air travel | 7 | September 22nd, 2003 04:04 AM |