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Delays over the last 2 months


Date Security Immigration Best Airline Worst Airline
21/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
18/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
15/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
12/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
09/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
06/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
03/08/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
31/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
28/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
25/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
22/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
19/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
16/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
13/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
10/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
07/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
04/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
01/07/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
28/06/20088 Mins6 MinsBritish Airways - 0 MinsOther - 8 Mins
 


Travellers Comments on Gatwick Airport


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colin james
Posted on 07 January 2008 20:55
 
Baggage Handling at LGW a nightmare . It took them an hour to get bags onto a belt. My case is still in Dubai ( mon 7th 8pm)but I wasnt told until the belt was allocated !!

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david lildres
Posted on 27 December 2007 14:37
 
Gatwick appears to be getting its act together
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Colin
Posted on 10 December 2007 13:20
 
Checked in online with EasyJet.
Straight through security no waiting - great. First time for a long time, but who are these people in the yellow shirts at the start of security at South Terminal - Gatwick. Customer Service skills? I question whether some of them could spell it. Is this the finest our nation can find to be the face of international travel via one of the major cities of the world? Answers on a postcard.

Called to EasyJet gate. Every week queue for about 12-15 mins just to get in the gate.

Forget buying 'Speedy Boarding' - complete waste of time and money. Every week I see stressed passengers caught at the back of the gate queue trying to get passed the BAA Domestic photo scanner and into the gate. Here's a tip. Get on the plane, walk right to the back, and sit down. It is always empty.

Have moved my weekly travel bookings to BA after Christmas. Sorry EasyJet - get your act together at the gate.
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Barbara Charlton
Posted on 26 November 2007 10:18
 
Checked in online with BA, so went to bag drop, which actually had more people q'ing than normal check in!!

It was a domestic flight, so no immigration to contend with.
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Tracey Baker
Posted on 06 November 2007 12:24
 
The security process at Gatwick must be the worst in the world. There is hardly any attempt to demarcate queues in the run-up to the desk where boarding passes are first checked. Once you have managed to fight your way through those queues, you then have to - literally - fight your way into the queue for the scanners. If you get through the far left entrance, you have all the other people pushing from the right. If you get through the far right entrance, you have to contend with everyone pushing in from the doors as you go past them. The queue I was directed to for the scanner machine DID NOT MOVE FOR 20 MINUTES. I had to push my way into another queue to avoid missing my flight. There is no infomation, no crowd control, no politeness, and everything is controlled by the fact that everyone knows that if they make a fuss their lives will be made hell. Many elderly people that I watched really, really struggled to stand for the hour plus required by this process, and no attempt was made to help them at all.
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John Woolston
Posted on 29 October 2007 14:13
 
One of the worst delays at airports is not surveyed - namely the time to get from passport control to collection of luggage.
On return from the above journey people were streaming out of passport control (which was very efficient) into a relatively small area to await details of which carousel their luggage would be arriving on. Only one set of monitors was working (not unusual for Gatwick) and the result was a mass of unhappy travellers.
It took about 20 mins for the information on our flight to be dispalyed.
This is a frequent occurence at Gatwick and one I have experienced and complained about previously, but nothing seems to improve.
The situation is bad at night and particularly bad on Sundays.
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