Using Leeds Bradford Airport (Questions & Reviews)

[BCFC]

I was at the airport this morning. The boarding card scanners are installed as has been mentioned previously but are yet to be commissioned. Upstairs the queue for Gate 5 was back to the steps by the shops and was causing some congestion. Overheard a couple on the phone being told DSA would be open next Spring with Jet2 and Tui flying from there- wishful thinking, but it serves as a reminder that some pax will be lost when/if it reopens.

85 pax on Kl1020 and we used the airbridge.

Why would Jet2 go to DSA when its in between LBA and EMA?. Never say never I suppose.

 

[CM.]

I was at the airport this morning. The boarding card scanners are installed as has been mentioned previously but are yet to be commissioned. Upstairs the queue for Gate 5 was back to the steps by the shops and was causing some congestion. Overheard a couple on the phone being told DSA would be open next Spring with Jet2 and Tui flying from there- wishful thinking, but it serves as a reminder that some pax will be lost when/if it reopens.

85 pax on Kl1020 and we used the airbridge.

You hear that by a lot of people at the airport but they’re never right

 

[LBAYORKIE]

You hear that by a lot of people at the airport but they’re never right

Time will tell!

 

[CM.]

Time will tell!

Like the last 2 and half years have and they’re still closed.

 

[Len Fish]

The big difference between LBA and DSA is that the former is a privately funded commercial enterprise going from strength to strength whilst the latter will be a taxpayer subsidised vanity project which like all vanity projects will ultimately fail with the taxpayer left footing the bill whilst roads deteriorate and potholes remain unfilled.

 

[BCFC]

Came back from FAO yesterday on FR2504…..parked up at stand 8 and straight up the steps, we were the only aircraft there and straight through passport control BUT a 25 min wait for our cases was ridiculous.

 

[Aviador]

Came back from FAO yesterday on FR2504…..parked up at stand 8 and straight up the steps, we were the only aircraft there and straight through passport control BUT a 25 min wait for our cases was ridiculous.

Sorry to break this news to you but that is how long it takes to offload baggage from the hold of an aircraft. 25 minutes is good going. The quick passage through immigration will just have made your wait seem longer.

 

[CM.]

Usually the target is 40 minutes from the aircraft arriving to having the bags on the belt so like Aviador says 25 minutes seems pretty good and quick for me.

 

[Seasider]

Went through the Airport smoothly this morning at 8am. I was surprised how many pax there was at that time. Only gripe, security was `less than 15mins', it actually took me 30 mins. They need to get their info sorted.

 

[Aviador]

Went through the Airport smoothly this morning at 8am. I was surprised how many pax there was at that time. Only gripe, security was `less than 15mins', it actually took me 30 mins. They need to get their info sorted.

I think the less than 15 mins sign means from that point.

 

[leedslad]

In perhaps a worrying sign ahead of summer for the airport, queues for security reached the entrance doors this morning.

That's an early spring Tuesday morning not in school holidays....

Security scanners were moving quite quickly, the hold up seemed to be slow progress through the new automatic boarding pass scanners.

 

[arry]

In perhaps a worrying sign ahead of summer for the airport, queues for security reached the entrance doors this morning.

That's an early spring Tuesday morning not in school holidays....

Security scanners were moving quite quickly, the hold up seemed to be slow progress through the new automatic boarding pass scanners.

The new self scanning entrance gates to Security were causing problems yesterday requiring no less than 5 members of staff to monitor them. There’s only 5 of them and they were causing a lot of teething problems. At AGP there’s a bank of 20 and people simply present their boarding passes and zip through, not at LBA. They were slow and problematic causing significant problems, rejecting many presented boarding passes and causing frustration for staff and passengers. Let’s hope that they were teething problems before the main season.

 

[Seasider]

I think the less than 15 mins sign means from that point.

The sign was at the end of the queue. They are not going to be dead accurate, but twice as long is too inaccurate for me.
Yes, there were problems with the boarding pass scanners but people will get used to them. A lot of the problems were due to people not using them properly. When they were shown, they "flew" through.

 

[leedslad]

The lady just scanned mine for me so didn't actually get to test it for myself.

Think they were in queue busting mode

 

[Seasider]

Returned last night and off the aircraft quickly and thro' passport control and out to the car park bus.
What I did notice was that there were quite a few in the "other passports" queue. I thought it would be mainly UK/EU pax from Porto.

 

[HX3]

Possibly Brazilians- many are dual national due to historical migration there, so have rights to live in European nations.