Belfast City Airport to London City Airport via London Gatwick.
By Patrick Griffin. I arrived at Belfast City Airport (BHD) at 5.30am. I love pre-dawn travel when going on a trip, it engenders a real sense of adventure, being alive, up and about and with somewhere to go before sunrise. It gives a sense of anticipation and expectation about the new day which is about [...]
Airport security – missing the point?
I was left rather baffled at my last encounter with the pre-departure security screening process at Heathrow’s Terminal 1. I passed through the metal detector without problem and my bags didn’t trouble the X-Ray machine either. The problem arose at the ‘additional security’ checkpoint where passengers are randomly selected to have some of their belongings [...]
Security issue – the unloved e-boarding pass.
PERHAPS the new(ish) BMI electronic boarding passes which are downloaded directly to your mobile phone, are not as great an idea as the airline would have hoped? Having a bag to check in at Heathrow, I presented my mobile boarding pass to the girl at the desk so she could issue the bag tag and [...]
It’s all in the touch
IN a previous post I mentioned the Heathrow security staff member who refused to accept the electronic boarding pass on my mobile phone. She was angry because the barcode image was too small. Now, thanks to a helpful security guy at Belfast City Airport, I know how to make it bigger. You tap it, once, [...]
A (rare) bad day at airport security
I handed jobsworth number two my phone with the picture text message open at the barcode image.
She took the phone, examined it for the briefest of moments and scowled in utter distaste.
Her nose wrinkled, her lips curled and her eyes narrowed as she studied the image I had proffered.
leery guard ogles my airport assets.
IT was bound to happen. As soon as someone invented an airport security scanner which takes ‘naked’ pictures of travellers, it was just waiting to be misused. And now at Heathrow a security guard has been quizzed by police – according to The Sun – for “ogling” a female colleague who, it seems, stepped into [...]