Birmingham Airport queue live as passengers claim ‘health and safety disaster’

VaselineJune 27, 2024

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Birmingham Airport queue live as passengers claim ‘health and safety disaster’

Passengers at Birmingham Airport have spoken of further long waits at security this morning. One tourist described the scenes as a “health and safety disaster”.

The traveler estimated more than 1,000 people were queuing at 5.30am today, Thursday 27 June. He waited in line for an hour and still hasn’t made it to the elevators to get past security.

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One passenger told BirminghamLive: “We’ve been queuing for over an hour and we still haven’t got to the lifts. It’s literally a health and safety disaster because the animals won’t be treated that badly. We estimate that at 05:30 there are approximately 1,000 people. in the queue. Something akin to a third-world operation is underway.” BirminghamLive approached the airport for comment on the latest situation.

A temporary liquid check structure was installed to help ease the situation. The queuing problems are said to have been partly caused by the government’s last-minute changes to the 100ml liquid maximum carry-on rule.

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07:45Ben Perrin

“Over 1,000 passengers waiting since 5:30”

One passenger estimated that over a thousand tourists were waiting for the 5.30 am security.

He said “the animals will not be treated so badly” and compared the process to “running something like a third world operation”.

The passenger told BirminghamLive: “We’ve been queuing for over an hour and we still haven’t got to the lifts. It’s literally a health and safety disaster because the animals won’t be treated that badly. We estimate that at 05:30 there are approximately 1,000 people. in the queue. Something akin to a third-world operation is underway.”

07:38Ben Perrin