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The Portishead to Bristol rail link has been canned yet again,saying there is no money. So if there did happen to get a rail link to the airport,it looks like the rail company would be knocking on the airports door for money.
The money the transport minister said would be used for local rail projects instead of electrification, for starters. I wonder what happened to that.My understanding is that there is a funding shortfall and one possible source to make up that shortfall didn't pan out, but there may still be hope to obtain funding to bridge the gap from elsewhere.
Do you think it's a case of being unable to recruit sufficient staff or are the airlines screwing the handling companies with the contracts meaning the latter then cut staffing levels to make the operation viable for them?The saga of BRS summer troubles last year was two fold. Long queues in security stretching all the way to the ground floor doors during the early morning departures rush. And the long wait for bags.
2018 appears to be an improvement. The security queues have more or less disapppeared. Managed by a bigger security hall and more staff.
But sadly the wait for bags is getting worse. All down to staffing with baggage handlers. Woefully inadequte. The twitter feed is getting complaints and Bristol Live correspondents have been seen to be asking twitter users for comments. Waits of 1 to 1.5 hrs is all too common especially during the peaks.
Unless they (swissport) double their staffing in the next month, the saga of delayed bags will hit the headlines i am sure.
No, they show the codeshare flight numbers on the route as not everyone will be aware if they are waiting for a passenger on a Delta or Jet Airways flight number that it's arriving on a KLM flight. They also do it for Flybe routes with a codeshare and Vueling as well.In cardiff they appear to deliberatel set their boards to show 6 flights from Amsterdam landing at 11:30 am when we all know its just 1 flight.
I note in the main check-in area landside they now have new departure FIDs for the entire 24 hours ahead, as has been the case in the departures area of the terminal for a while. Previously the displays could only cater for about the next 30-40 departures.There is one very big positive about the airport flight boards at the terminal and also online.
The terminal flight screen does not show every destination on a code share on separate lines. The codeshare airline flight numbers just cycle through on the corner. It is so much nicer than some other airports where every code share flight number takes up a separate line.
In cardiff they appear to deliberatel set their boards to show 6 flights from Amsterdam landing at 11:30 am when we all know its just 1 flight.
Makes airport look busy.
One negative about the BRS board. They are too small to read at the airport except for the 2 main prominent ones.
LHR certainly does. I was checking a flight only yesterday.CWL uses an older system which is why it displays as it does. But I'm pretty sure LHR and BHX both show codeshare flights on its websites.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/absolute-shambles-chaos-bristol-airport-1659117
Bristol Post now highlighting the baggage handling problems. In their usual way they have trawled social media sites and repeated comments on those. There has been no attempt to engage in proper journalism and actually interview people as journalists used to do. They merely say at the end of the piece that they have asked Bristol Airport and Swissport for comments.
Probably asked them on social media. I jest. Or do I?
Nevertheless, we already know there are serious problems at BRS with baggage handling, and with overseas industrial action throwing schedules out of the window aircraft seem to be more and more arriving at unscheduled times which presumably puts more pressure on an already straining system.
It's not a new phenomenon at BRS but things certainly appear to be worsening. Although the responsibility lies with the airlines who choose to contract the handling companies, most people blame the airport. I believe it's about time the senior figure at the airport - currently the airport company chairman* who I believe has been covering CEO duties since Robert Sinclair left - told the public what the problems are. She has considerable experience of the aviation and travel industry so is no novice in the field.
It's no good talking about becoming a world-leading regional airport with fancy infrastructure if the basic requirements for processing passengers efficiently are not being achieved.
* that's how Janis Kong styles herself
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-airport-swissport-easyjet-tui-1660574https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/absolute-shambles-chaos-bristol-airport-1659117
Bristol Post now highlighting the baggage handling problems. In their usual way they have trawled social media sites and repeated comments on those. There has been no attempt to engage in proper journalism and actually interview people as journalists used to do. They merely say at the end of the piece that they have asked Bristol Airport and Swissport for comments.
Probably asked them on social media. I jest. Or do I?
Nevertheless, we already know there are serious problems at BRS with baggage handling, and with overseas industrial action throwing schedules out of the window aircraft seem to be more and more arriving at unscheduled times which presumably puts more pressure on an already straining system.
It's not a new phenomenon at BRS but things certainly appear to be worsening. Although the responsibility lies with the airlines who choose to contract the handling companies, most people blame the airport. I believe it's about time the senior figure at the airport - currently the airport company chairman* who I believe has been covering CEO duties since Robert Sinclair left - told the public what the problems are. She has considerable experience of the aviation and travel industry so is no novice in the field.
It's no good talking about becoming a world-leading regional airport with fancy infrastructure if the basic requirements for processing passengers efficiently are not being achieved.
* that's how Janis Kong styles herself
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