Diva and TSH arrived at John Lennon airport with plenty of
time to spare. Time for a breakfast to supplement the fruit they had at home. TSH
had a bowl of porridge (saving himself for the cruise). The airport is small, so hardly any queueing
for check-in or security. Almost time to go to the gate. And then. ‘Will all
passengers go immediately to Gate 1. This is a security incident’. So people (except the ones who sat around
drinking coffee ignoring it all) gathered in a small area inside the terminal
with no officialdom in sight. If there was a ‘device’ around this did not seem
good. The next move was about ten
minutes crammed into a small corridor. No place of work would carry out an
evacuation like this. There were no announcements and many people were uneasy
about being cooped up in a small space with an unknown threat present. And then
to the departures hall and through security again. The automatic gates which
scan the boarding cards would not let people back in so everybody had to be
rechecked manually by – at first – one person. No proper queue, just a scrum. And
then they started calling particular flights and those people had to push
through.
TSH spoke to a policeman and was told that the airport had
discovered that a scanner (or scanners?) was not working so everybody had to go
back through security.
JL airport did the right thing in a very clumsy way. And they are supposed to verify scanners
regularly.
Eventual take-off was about an hour late.
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