Passengers & Frequent Flyers [Questions & Reviews]

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Re: East Midlands - Passengers & Frequent Flyers

Having just returned from a long haul flight into ema i found servisair to be as bad as leeds/bradford for unloading the cases and getting them to the baggage reclaim - passengers were waiting 55 mins!I am aware they have to transport them a fair distance as the aircraft was parked on the remote terminal but 55 mins is a long time.
 
Re: East Midlands - Passengers & Frequent Flyers

If you were on a long haul flight, the aircraft you were travelling on would almost certainly use luggage containers. It takes longer to off load these containers than the conventional way. 55 minutes seems reasonable to be honest. Waiting any length of time for luggage after a long flight is the last thing you need but it's just the way it is. Had you been on a short haul service flying on say a 737 or 757, your luggage should appear in between 20 and 40 minutes usually. A long haul flight is usually longer with a wait between 40 minutes and an hour.
 
Re: East Midlands - Passengers & Frequent Flyers

What kind of aircraft did you fly on?

Aviador is right, it will have most likely been one with baggage containers in the hold, compared to the "loose loads" you would expect on a 737 for example. Passengers dissembark pretty much straight away, the ramp guys have to get all equipment positioned up to the aircraft, get all those containers off, secure them, travel to the belts, and offload container by container, bag by bag.

These containers fit up to 80 suitcases each and a typical 763 can hold 13 of these.

I would expect after a;

short haul flight - 15 to 30 mins
medium/long haul flight - 40 mins to 70 mins
 
Re: East Midlands - Passengers & Frequent Flyers

Thanks for that.I must have been very lucky in the past as this was the longest i have ever had to wait!
 
Re: East Midlands - Passengers & Frequent Flyers

[textarea]East Midlands cargo bomb timed to explode over US

Scotland Yard has revealed that the device taken from a plane in Britain was timed to explode in mid-air over the eastern US, the Guardian reports. The bomb was found by police on board a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport last month after detailed information was passed through intelligence channels to the UK and US from Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian reports that an alarm clock on a mobile phone attached to the printer bomb was set to go off at 10:30. If the cargo plane's journey had gone to schedule, the device – in a package addressed to a synagogue in Chicago – would have gone off in midair over the eastern seaboard of the US. The device was capable of bringing down an aircraft.

The bomb is believed to have been sent by the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It was found aboard a UPS plane at East Midlands and was so sophisticated that it was initially cleared by military and police explosives experts.

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