Dispatches tonight

Just a reminder, Channel 4 tonight at 8pm, Dispatches:Checking-in To Airport Chaos is on:

Details here

[Darren Wheeler]

I remember Dispatches 'investigation' into Ryanair. Guess who came out better?

Originally posted by Darren Wheeler
I remember Dispatches 'investigation' into Ryanair. Guess who came out better?

My old company was on Watchdog, we sold a lot more holidays the next day than usual. [:?]

I felt it was the typical one sided stuff we normally get from Dispatches. I was massively disappointed that the programme turned into BAA Bashing.

[Neil]

Originally posted by willd
I felt it was the typical one sided stuff we normally get from Dispatches. I was massively disappointed that the programme turned into BAA Bashing.

I forgot about this thread.

I too was very disappointed with this programme. From the adverts it made out it was going to show serious security breaches at UK airports but like you say Will it just turned out to be about anything and everything they could find to make BAA look bad. I really don't see what the programme makers were trying to achieve with it, some of the 'findings' were ridiculous nothings and I thought the whole thing was really badly presented.

make BAA look bad

Think BAA do a good job of that without the help of dispatches lol

I have just caught a glimpse of todays FT headline in the lobby downstairs- it says the CEO of BAA is to leave.

All in all I thought the programme was very poor and was left wondering if it was funded by Greenpeace.

One thing it brought to attention was the possible length of queues - I've never queued at LHR more than 15 minutes, maybe I'm just lucky, but that queue they featured was almost beyond belief, and since there were enough retractable belt barriers to cover the length I'm guessing this may not have been a one off. It looked to me as if the queue started in the car park?

[Neil]

The queue was pretty ridiculous. I thought it must have been at a really busy time but it seems it was February 2007, wonder what on earth cause it, can't remember anything specific that happened then?

Thank god for the new private VS security channel eh!

Originally posted by Neil
it seems it was February 2007, wonder what on earth cause it, can't remember anything specific that happened then?

It looked like T3 - the only thing I can think of could be Chinese New Year, but even so that would only mean full loadings on a few flights. So dunno really.

[Darren Wheeler]

it could be caused by anything. Shortage of screeners due a bug going round, a scanner failed, stupid people not under standing the 'no liquid' rule, or the building had been evacuated and just let back in.

Showing a queue without context is just showing a line of people.

Maybe it's time for V-Flyers to start assisting the tracking! The programme accused BAA of lying, hopefully PAX themselves don't. Report here

[Darren Wheeler]

Having just watched this on 4oD, hardly anything out of the blue there. LHR is mainly for shopping? Yep, we know that. It's getting busy! Umm, yep. It's noisy on the flightpath! Err, ditto....

Somehow I don't think C4 will be invited to go airside again in a while.