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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Airports Cash in on Terror Checks: £5 Charge to Jump Queues 'They Keep Long'


Airports are cashing in on the queues at their security gates by charging passengers to use fast-track priority lanes.

At least eight have introduced the system and are charging travellers up to £5 to beat the queues.

A whistleblower security guard at Luton Airport, which adopted the system last year, claimed there is a deliberate policy to let the queues grow to encourage people to pay for the express lane.'

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1 comment:

  1. Hmmmmm, charging to jump the queue.....Sounds like the same type of bribery and corruption going on in developing/third world countries is common in the western world as well....so we are phasing quickly into a third world society, it appears....I've never seen it so bad here.

    Shocking really.

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