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What travellers had to say about Manchester Airport

Avri Benkwitz

Manchester

Posted on 08 January 2008 20:25

"The management of our borders is fundamental to the interests of the United Kingdom. Our immigration system must allow us to manage properly who comes here and ensure people leave when they are no longer entitled to be here".

I have taken the time to look at the Border and Immigration Agency Website and found the above quotation to my amazment.

Does this include Manchester by any chance? Do not hold your breath. I hear the same excuses - it is the same everywhere.

The incidents and queuing we witnessed at Manchester last week returning from Tel Aviv via Frankfurt was neither managed nor proper.

Does Gordon Brown's border force have IIP? Investors In People or should it be Incompetent, Inept and Perilous.

I have written a formal complaint to my MP. I am not wasting anymore time dealing with customer focus teams as I am not a customer and do not want standard replies with the nonsense in quotation above.

Nor will I take out my anxieties on the people who have to implement this nonsense. Why should law abiding British people have to wait to get back home when we learn today overstayers are not being dealt with.

I am further infuriated when I discover from a close work colleague that anyone rich enough to fly into Manchester on a private jet is not seen at all. If this is true it is scandalous. I have enquired about this as well in my complaint. Does Gordon Brown or Lynne Honner know about that? Square that!

Firm? No Fair? No
A Solomon Benkwitz

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Simon Coverdale

Manchester

Posted on 08 January 2008 19:08

Extremely frustrating at Manchester Terminal 2 having to wait 50 mins. Watched my p's and q's at passport control. Various flights. Announcements stating all available staff were dealing with flights.

I counted 3 officers - 2 male and female dealing with two queues not to mention flight crews. Hand it to them they must have eyes in the back of their heads. They were mucking in. around an hour waiting.

I see the funny side to the fact that I had to wait for the next N Express bus to Burnley. All in all 4 hours.

Si Coverdale
Colne near Burnley

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MAGGS DE RIJK

Manchester

Posted on 07 January 2008 17:47

Seamless travel through Amsterdam. Regular cityflyer trip. Delay only small.
However I had to stomach the queue at Manchester. IRIS kaput. Had to be taken to front of the queue. Just as well as early start. Colleague was made to wait 40 minutes. I have HIGH regard for the immigration staff who seem to be juggling all the time. Jugglers as managers? Clowns morelike. LOWE opinion for them marked by there absence.
Maggie - Leiden nr Amsterdam.

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Jackie Ashley

Manchester

Posted on 06 January 2008 22:51

Dear UK Airportdelays

Date of travel - 03.01.2008
Airline service - fair
Arrival time - on time
Distance from bags - fair
Time at passport - over 2 hours - Terminal 1
Opinion:

A horrible end to our silver anniversary/xmas and new years break in Spain. The queuing at Manchester Airport was first and foremost dangerous and unacceptable. I can recall several people taking video of the scenes at the escalators and horizontal walkways which they would send to various newspapers and the firebrigade. I only wish I had charged up my battery.

I have travelled around Europe and the world in my job and never seen such a farce. The officials were working their socks off. My husband is a former firefighter in the RAF and holds the view that the whole thing is a disaster waiting to unfold.

I have read the previous messages and I am astonished. I enjoyed travelling from Manchester until now. Sadly there is no airport in Crewe. Perhaps we will fly from East Midlands or Birmingham now.

I dread to think with all those children we saw, foreigners who may not speak english, the handicapped and the elderly what could happen if there was an emergency.

As my husband pointed out the man or woman running immigration at Manchester could be personally held responsible. And where were they? I for one would not want that responsibility on my shoulders.

Mrs Jacqueline Ashley
Crewe

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David Babcock

Manchester

Posted on 06 January 2008 14:37

We got back to Manchester Terminal 2 from Malta. Met at plane by wheelchair pushers. Our pusher pointed out that the electronic clocks were not on. A coincidence? Excellent. Got to passport control well actually passport chaos. Massive lines of people. We managed to bypass our flight. What is going on? Police in boiler suits machine guns? Its Manchester not the wild west. The passport officer was pleasant but looked tired. I thought sweatshops died out years ago. I would not be suprised if there is a crush.

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Mavis Underwood

Manchester

Posted on 04 January 2008 22:17

City break away not to be ruined by the weather was spoilt by the goings on at Ringway or manchester international airport as it is now called. Having been hassled by airline crew to buy scratch cards my husband and I were squashed into the airport building at terminal 1 late on thursday night to wait nearly 2 hours.

It was frightening and claustrophobic.

Babies crying, elderly people being made to stand for what? To come back into our own country. I needed the toilet but the queue from the gate prevented me from getting to it. We eventually got into the area where passports are checked. I do not know how they can do their jobs.
A man who was stood there in a green shirt was directing people to desks. He said the officers checking passports had been working solidly for well over 4 hours without a break - is that legal?

I saw several police with machine guns. It felt like something out of an arnold shwarzenegger hollywood film. I counted four people checking passports. They looked really stressed and unhappy. I heard a man shout and be abusive at one of the officers. It was unbearable. My husband Roy, asked the officer if there was a reason for the delay.
I understand that planes arrive early and late very rarely on time and if you are like me want to get off a plane quickly because I do not like flying. I was given a leaflet to complain however reading other comments I am minded to contact my member of parliament. I do not want a dear john bog standard response.

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