{"id":282279,"date":"2025-07-22T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282279\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:39:21","slug":"no-repeat-of-last-years-long-queues-birmingham-airport-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282279\/","title":{"rendered":"No repeat of last year&#8217;s long queues, Birmingham Airport says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terminal operations director Al Titterington stated people were due to be able to take through that amount from 1 June last year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9885p925rno\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulations changed<\/a> and the airport had made its preparations around customers carrying up to two litres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;This is designed so that you need less lanes, you need less staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Plus, we were a construction site.. and we weren&#8217;t as ship-shape as we would have hoped to [have been].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the past, more than one in five bags were rejected for oversized liquids, he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queues were reported as the late May bank holiday weekend began last year, with some people taking 90 minutes to get through security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Mr Titterington said the airport was &#8220;in a much better state&#8221; by July 2024 and it had worked &#8220;to ensure when the season&#8217;s started again in April, we were ready to go and our customer experience statistics are showing us that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about last year, he stated: &#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of work over the last 12 months to ensure that we&#8217;re not in that position ever again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terminal operations director Al Titterington stated people were due to be able to take through that amount from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114896461144014630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}