New BNE Passenger screening point

[Kefci2000]

The new QF screening lane at BNE had half the queue of the premium lane last Thursday, but the sheep kept lining up at premium

I was through in quarter of the time as they had 4 lanes open versus 1 in premium

 

[fletty]

The new QF screening lane at BNE had half the queue of the premium lane last Thursday, but the sheep kept lining up at premium

I was through in quarter of the time as they had 4 lanes open versus 1 in premium

My favourite is when the sheep line up and then complain to the J check in desk that the line took way too long.

 

[VHOEJ]

I agree with everyone else - the claim it is so much better than the old scanners is really just a mirage.

Yes, you save time taking all your items out of your bag but they still get you to take off belts and jackets.

The big hold up is after you get through that - it takes them longer to look at the bags.

Then the secondary screening process largely wastes more time and doesn't find anything. I am certain the providers have a quota of bags they need to screen 'again' for no reason. The improvement has been marginal as more times than not, my bag gets the secondary screening.

 

[Kefci2000]

I asked the question about secondary screening as I travel weekly with exactly the same things in my laptop bag, and get checked about 1 in 20.
They said the operator has 20 seconds to review a bag so if anything looks slightly off they send it through for second scan. Most of the time they don’t even check the bag, just the screening.