 Poster: A snowHead
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T1 last week. Straight through security on way out to Dubai. Customs on way back zero queue, I was lucky to be near door on the a380 and walked with purpose! Bag took 15 mins which off an A380 is excellent. Onto a train within an hour of landing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Never had a problem at Manchester, outbound or inbound.
Nice and modern, clean, plenty of shops and cafes. Staff always friendly and polite even though security is super busy. Only problems I have seen is when people try and take things through which they shouldn't and then get arsy when they are held up because of bag searches.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I had to pick up in Bristol, in the dark and rain, a short while ago. I noticed several spots on the last mile or two into the airport where where cars, with lights on, were just sitting at the side of the road. Found out why when I drove to the (very poorly signposted) "pick up" spot and saw folk with their baggage standing, waiting for their pick up. They had clearly phoned their driver friend, and were waiting to hop in. The car park was outside, there were no spaces in the first rank, and by the time I got into the terminal I was very wet. The way into the terminal (and back to the car) was up/down a flight of concrete steps. Fortunately my son and daughter in law only had small, bags, easily carried up and down. Pick up somewhere like Gatwick is expensive, but at least you can park in the dry and use a trolley between the car and departure or arrival.
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Seems to have been a building site for the last 4 years.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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£3 for ten minutes someone told me at Bristol pick up since the thread has been bumped. And that was after a truly dreadful arrival experience a couple of weeks ago.
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I think I paid £4 at Bristol, but that was for about 45 minutes. At Gatwick I paid £8 for slightly less time! There was a place on the road past the terminal where theoretically you could have picked up people waiting at the roadside but there were massive signs warning of H U G E fines for dropping off or picking up there. One of my Bristol problems was being completely unfamiliar with the airport and driving in the dark and Storm Dennis rain. The signposts, colour coded, to the various parking areas were written in very small writing. Completely impossible for me to read, even slowing down as much as I dared without annoying the hell out of the driver behind.
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@pam w, I have often wondered if airports deliberately signpost parking, drop offs, collections poorly in order to 'fleece' as many people as possible?
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I was lucky to be near door on the a380
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Arriving at Birmingham just after an A380 has docked is a nightmare. Not through customs but immigration, half hour at least, possibly longer.
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I was lucky to be near door on the a380
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Arriving at Birmingham just after an A380 has docked is a nightmare. Not through customs but immigration, half hour at least, possibly longer. |
I should have put immigration, not customs, literally straight through immigration, very fortunate I was on top deck ( economy) but near the door. Entering Dubai was a 30 minute queue, and bags still not through after that.
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