Using Leeds Bradford Airport Questions & Reviews

[LBA4EVER]

Just currently in the departure lounge as i write this, a new record for me as i was through security in 1 minute, no joke! No queue, bag and fone straight on tray, body scanned and done! My flights the 17.05 ryanair to ALC so im like the last of the afternoon rush so guess thats why im through security so fast, departure lounge rammed as expected.
On arrival managed to speak to a friendly guy on the terminal construction site, a tipper truck had just arrived so he kept the security gate open for me so i could take a few clear shots.
In the second picture you can see the steel been delivered on the hgv low loader and its also laid on the ground. Its a large development for sure, the construction guy told me the size of the extension will be all the way to the jcb and steel truck you can see in the pic!

Update, 1hr30min delay! Things were going too well haha

 

[Finger66]

Well Alicante is an anagram of "I can late" so possibly only to be expectef

 

[Aviador]

Well Alicante is an anagram of "I can late" so possibly only to be expectef

You been talking to @Bigman ?

 

[Finger66]

@Aviador no but we clearly both have similarly warped minds!

 

[leedslad]

Used the airport at half term and therefore experienced the new security scanners.

Really great... Automated tray delivery/return, dedicated bays per passenger, fully conveyor and of course no need to remove liquids/laptops.

Top class and a great experience. A real upgrade comparable to anything else worldwide.

 

[gcoabc1]

Used the airport at half term and therefore experienced the new security scanners.

Really great... Automated tray delivery/return, dedicated bays per passenger, fully conveyor and of course no need to remove liquids/laptops.

Top class and a great experience. A real upgrade comparable to anything else worldwide.

I got back from Lanzarote a week ago today and have not reported in because I have been reacclimatising myself to the numpty environment when we flew back into LBIA.
We flew out three weeks prior arriving at airport 0310, no Fast Pass and straight into the new Security practices. Two belts/scanners working and, apart from being gee'd up to get into the correct Star Jump position in the body scanner, everything went like a dream. Through and having breakfast by 0330. Off on time, great flight, landing 10 minutes early. Bussed to terminal, straight through Security and exited 30 minutes later on to the transfer to resort.
On return arrived LBIA a couple of minutes early then sightseeing tour down the terminal towards Horsforth. "Parked nose in on first bay facing Fuel tanks ? much to the surprise of all but the man with the wheel chocks.
An interesting and new experience.
10 minute wait for the buses, breezed through Border Control and then the rot set in.

Baggage area clogged with families mainly standing by the carousels with buggies etc. and lots of kids fooling about elsewhere causing chaos. This all arose because the Faro flight came in after ours but offloaded to the terminal and their bags went onto the same carousel as ours.
The current restriction in the baggage collection process should be a glaringly obvious reason for GALBA support for a new terminal if only to reduce the unnecessary CO2 emissions from the vast majority of passengers fuming at the current inadequacies using the airport. 45 minutes later we were heading home.
Here Enders the rant.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Arrived at airport at 06:00. 3 scanners in operation, queued for 5 minutes at security. Plenty of seats upstairs. Only criticism- neither the escalator nor lift to 1st floor was working.

Also..I noted an overflow area has been opened for free drop off/pick up.

 

[Yordas]

Arrived 4:45 security queue back to Jet 2 check in, all the screens showing 20 mins took 35 all 4 scanners in use.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Arrived 4:45 security queue back to Jet 2 check in, all the screens showing 20 mins took 35 all 4 scanners in use.

Ouch...thats not good.

 

[White Heather]

Ouch...thats not good.

No doubt the result of the changes brought in by the D of T from midnight .....

 

[BCFC]

What about this then!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799657873921978842

 

[rollo]

What about this then!

x.com

x.com

It's " our new normal " apparently according to a BHX spokesperson. My wife and I get our chance to experience it on Wednesday for a 06:40 with TUI, can hardly wait which is the operative word - pathetic.

Hope you do better up there.

 

[Yordas]

Didn't see any issues liquids wise. But an awful lot of bags going to secondary screening in our party of 3 2 went to secondary but then just handed back.

 

[Vzg94w]

Didn't see any issues liquids wise. But an awful lot of bags going to secondary screening in our party of 3 2 went to secondary but then just handed back.

Too many bags being pulled for secondary screening everyday. Either a flaw in system or staff not properly trained. Staff just not proactive enough dealing with bag scanning. More staff definitely needed or deployed quickly to deal with backlog of bags

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Too many bags being pulled for secondary screening everyday. Either a flaw in system or staff not properly trained. Staff just not proactive enough dealing with bag scanning. More staff definitely needed or deployed quickly to deal with backlog of bags

As I stated we had no problems at all on Friday, everything running like clockwork, however I reported on a trip in late April (at which time only new 2 scanners were working) and at that time bags, including ours were going back for re-scanning frequently. I was told it was because not all scans were 'good' and therefore I assume hard to interpret.

My assumption was that since April the security staff had honed their skills and everything was now ok.

I also assumed the BHX issue was simply part of that airports learning curve and that it would be resolved as staff got used to the scanners.

I cant help thinking that the delays caused by the CAA/DFT insistence on revised software had in impact, pushing commissioning into peak period.

 

[Vzg94w]

My assumption was that since April the security staff had honed their skills and everything was now ok.

That is not what you see on a daily basis in my opinion

 

[The Pole]

No doubt the result of the changes brought in by the D of T from midnight .....

I have just looked on the LBA website and cant see anything relating to the security liquids back track.

I fly out next week, so does anyone know if we are as we were regards liquids, laptops etc bascially everything in the tray?

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I have just looked on the LBA website and cant see anything relating to the security liquids back track.

I fly out next week, so does anyone know if we are as we were regards liquids, laptops etc bascially everything in the tray?

Its on there. Not back to where we were.

 

[White Heather]

I have just looked on the LBA website and cant see anything relating to the security liquids back track.

I fly out next week, so does anyone know if we are as we were regards liquids, laptops etc bascially everything in the tray?

They issued something on t'internet. You can leave as many liquid bottles as you like in your hand luggage as long as none exceed 100ml. Anything bigger has to come out. As far as I could see, everything else is as it was and not impacted.

 

[dmrodgers]

I have just looked on the LBA website and cant see anything relating to the security liquids back track.

I fly out next week, so does anyone know if we are as we were regards liquids, laptops etc bascially everything in the tray?

Here is the link on the LBA website referring to changes to liquids etc from the 9th June.

Security upgrade updates | Leeds Bradford Airport

www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk