Flew from BHX to EDI (Edinburgh) yesterday with Easyjet, got to BHX at 05.30am to get my flight at 08.20, took me 1 hour 30 minutes to get through to the Duty Free Shop, lol. As soon as you get to the Burger King (Landside) you are told to start the process where you snake back and forth, round and round and round around those stupid barriers until you finally get to the security search area. However alot of this delay is caused by passengers, there are notices everywhere advising passengers to take out electonic items such as laptops out of there hand luggage and what do some people do, leave them in there hand baggage. So this is what is causing some of the delays, however I also noticed that staff were walking around the endless que asking if anybody was due to depart on flights before a certain time and then these passengers were rushed straight through to the front of the que, so you can't ask for more than that.
Also we are quick to moan about BHX, however what I experienced yesterday at EDI (Edinburgh) is nothing more than a dirty, cramped, out of date airport which cannot cope with the amount of passengers/airlines it handles. It truly is a horrible airport in every way, the airport is just a dozen sheds bolted together to increase its size. Arriving back at BHX yesterday evening was like landing back at our equivalent of Doha Hamad in comparison to Edinburgh. It needs to be demolished and totally rebuilt, it is an embarrasment to Scotland capital city.
The retail/bar/restaurant area when you get through to departures is also not a patch on the central area at BHX, also Toilets were dirty, and the seating, well what can I say, it is those horrible uncomfortable wooden seats that as soon as you lie back, get a horrible pain in your back. Again at BHX, obviously not luxury but at least you don't sit on a piece of wood.
What the thousands of tourists must think of Edinbugh Airport is nobodies guess and I suppose it doesn't put people off from visiting this city. Also the bus from the airport to the city centre (100 Airlink costs £4.50), by comparison our X1 (Birmingham - Coventry via Airport/NEC) costs £2.40.
FYI Easyjet were awesome, travelled on the A320 NEO in the moring (Nearly full but probably 93/94% full) and on the A319 on the retrun which was full 100%.
However despite the security delays at BHX and the chaotic scenes at EDI, it was actually nice to see some Chaos/crowds of people once again after the last 2 years 👍and lots of Easyjet flights departing BHX yesterday morning.
Our airport isn't too bad at all.
