Travellers Comments on UK airports
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What travellers had to say about
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| Sarah Wood |  | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 19 October 2007 19:57 | | | | We travelled with XL.com. We were delayed by an hour an half on the way out to Barbados. On the way home we should of arrived at Gatwick at 5.30am on the Saturday. We finaly landed Monday am at 8.00, thanks to Virgin bringing us home otherwise we would still be out there. Not happy. Checked in to the airport 3 times before we got to fly home. | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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| dineshi kodituwakku | | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 16 October 2007 15:37 | | | | Appalling queue at security - if only all the x-ray machines were staffed or they had a couple more of them, such a simple thing to fix given the predictable length of queues | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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| Amanda Wigmore | | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 16 October 2007 12:50 | | | | We had a total of 53 hours delay on our return flight, no XL rep, no information given. | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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| Peter Rose | | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 16 October 2007 09:42 | | | | An unusually short time in the Security queue which was a usual 30 minutes (even at 7am), but I blagged my way into the Fast Track queue and it took only 15 minutes. BIG lesson with BAA - it is better to lie than be honest. Unfortunately Fast Track closes at 2pm at Gatwick. | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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| Trudi | | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 15 October 2007 13:27 | | | Travelling out of gatwick on Oct 10th got there 3 hours+ early, bag drop took 20 mins then we had to join the long queue for security which started at the inner entrance (near the first set of check-in desks), went round through zone A (the far end of check-in desks) and then into a mass crowd entering passport control and security. Took over 30 mins just to get to show your passport. This airport is far too small for the numbers of travellers it handles nowadays.
Surprisingly on our return at 6.00am on the 13th Oct we were through immigration within 5-10 minutes, and bags out within 15 mins. This is the fastest ever time I have taken through immigration, where you normally wish you were not a UK citizen so you could go through the non-EU dedicated section - always seems to be much less crowded than for those of us arriving in our own country. | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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| Margaret Oldroyd | | Gatwick |
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| | Posted on 13 October 2007 13:21 | | | | After our experiences earlier at Heathrow and all the awful reports, particularly about Gatwick, we were worried we were going to be at Gatwick for ages. We checked in on-line. It took about 30 mins to go through the Bag Drop line. As we had printed our boarding cards before hand, going through security was very quick. This was at the North terminal, which maybe easier to negotiate than the South Terminal. We came back into Gatwick around 1.30 in the morning. The longest delay was waiting for our cases, which always seem to be last off where-ever we go! | | ............................................................................................................................................................................................. |
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