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Sky Blue Harry H · Aug 26, 2024

Out of curiosity. Has anybody flown out of the airport recently - my son is flying to Alicante on Wednesday (about 7.15am) and I was just wondering how bad the queues were at the moment (think him and his mates are meeting there about 5am). Any advice much appreciated from the ever helpful SBA .

alexccfc99 · Aug 26, 2024

I work here - I'll leave you to make a decision yourselves but the queues have really died down compared to what they were

alexccfc99 · Aug 26, 2024

Do your son and his friends have any luggage to put in the hold or are they travelling with just hand luggage?

Sky Blue Harry H · Aug 26, 2024

alexccfc99 said:
Do your son and his friends have any luggage to put in the hold or are they travelling with just hand luggage?

Just hand luggage - thanks for your advice. Much appreciated

alexccfc99 · Aug 26, 2024

Sky Blue Harry H said:
Just hand luggage - thanks for your advice. Much appreciated

If they check in online and have boarding passes on their phone a sneaky way to bypass any queues downstairs is for them to come off the monorail from International station and go to security from there without even needing to go downstairs into the main check in area

If they wanna be on the safe side Fast Track is available for six quid on the airports website

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AOM · Aug 26, 2024

Flew out earlier this month and even bought the queue jump as I was expecting the worst.
Wasn't even a queue to jump when we got there...
This was a late afternoon flight though so can't speak for the mornings where I imagine it's at its busiest

Grappa · Aug 26, 2024

Flew to Alicante from bhx yesterday afternoon and it took us an hour to get through security.

Sick Boy · Aug 26, 2024

AOM said:
Flew out earlier this month and even bought the queue jump as I was expecting the worst.
Wasn't even a queue to jump when we got there...
This was a late afternoon flight though so can't speak for the mornings where I imagine it's at its busiest

Same here. I flew from there at the start of August and bought the fast track. Didn’t even need to use it as there were no queues and was through in less than 5 minutes.

shmmeee · Aug 26, 2024

alexccfc99 said:
If they check in online and have boarding passes on their phone a sneaky way to bypass any queues downstairs is for them to come off the monorail from International station and go to security from there without even needing to go downstairs into the main check in area

If they wanna be on the safe side Fast Track is available for six quid on the airports website

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Ab was going to say I went from BHX a couple of weeks ago and had no queues, but I did take the monorail thing in.

fatso · Aug 26, 2024

I went to Crete from Birmingham about a month ago and although it was VERY busy the queues were moving quite quickly, so no complaints really, we were about 20 minutes late departing which is nothing.

Nowhere near as bad as we were led to believe.

We'll_live_and_die · Aug 26, 2024

Flew out Saturday afternoon the place was heaving. Literally not a seat in the place. Security however was an absolute doddle, maybe 10 minutes. Really impressed. Also they have a water station just through security so you can refill bottles

wingy · Aug 26, 2024

shmmeee said:
Ab was going to say I went from BHX a couple of weeks ago and had no queues, but I did take the monorail thing in.

Which I think the daughter did yesterday afternoon!

ovduk78 · Aug 26, 2024

Flew back to Glasgow at 8:40am on Saturday after Oxford game with just hand luggage and was through security in about 2 minutes

Mcbean · Aug 28, 2024

What’s the parking like at the international station ( start of the monorail ) ie cost for a week ?

alexccfc99 · Aug 28, 2024

Mcbean said:
What’s the parking like at the international station ( start of the monorail ) ie cost for a week ?

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