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Manchester Airport first to offer bookable security timeslots

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While airports struggle to come up with innovative ways of attracting passengers back 'safely', the UK's Manchester Airport will trial a pre-booking time slot option for the security clearance function, one which could be extended to Manchester Airports Group's other two airports.

By booking their free slot, passengers will benefit from access to a dedicated lane straight to the security checkpoint, similar to the 'Fast Lane' already in use, and will be able to reach the departure lounge more quickly. It will allow the airport to manage the volume of passengers coming through security more efficiently and help keep queues shorter, it claims.

The trial process is being offered as part of "a new standard for safe air travel" and to "ensure passengers feel safer and more confident about travelling by air, particularly when travel demand starts to grow again in the near future".

At first glance it makes sense, but there might be some impracticalities, and it doesn't make full and timely use of a recently opened 'private' terminal, which would appear to be ideal for these circumstances.

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