Security Breach at MEL Int Terminal

[Katie]

Worst of all my express card counts for nought.....oh the inhumanity!!!!

Hang on, Tony. Aren't you in the UK??? Man, can't keep up with your travel ...

 

[ozmille]

Hang on, Tony. Aren't you in the UK??? Man, can't keep up with your travel ...

Wasn't that earlier in the week though

 

[ozmille]

IMO the buck can't simply be passed to a ground handler, seriously - the fault has to lie with Customs and Border Protection.

The ground handler may have misaligned the aerobridge mechanisms/distribution channels (assuming that this is what happened) so as to funnel arriving passengers onto the departures level, but surely it is CBP's responsibility to oversee and ensure that incoming passengers will be funnelled correctly through to processing, and that some "newbie teenage ground handling aerobridge operator" hasn't potentially stuffed things up, prior to allowing anyone to disembark?

Just personal experience but in BRU when I was working at the airport it was pretty easy to press the wrong button and send pax up instead of out, there was no CBP staff to be seen (I worked at the airport as a weekend job whilst in uni...)

 

[TonyHancock]

Hang on, Tony. Aren't you in the UK??? Man, can't keep up with your travel ...

I arrived back on Wednesday morning. I'm on hols now, and I'm jetlagged in Auckland!

 

[dk4]

Just personal experience but in BRU when I was working at the airport it was pretty easy to press the wrong button and send pax up instead of out...

Well pity the poor part time, low paid, ground service operator at 'ad hoc designed' MEL T2, where 'up' is sometimes arrivals and 'down' is sometimes for departures, except at those gates where aerobridges are 'down' for arrivals and 'up' for departures, but... let's not forget the fixed aerobridges, with a single access point into/out of the terminal, where both departures and arrivals happen on the lower level.

Confused!?!??

 

[madrooster]

Well pity the poor part time, low paid, ground service operator at 'ad hoc designed' MEL T2, where 'up' is sometimes arrivals and 'down' is sometimes for departures, except at those gates where aerobridges are 'down' for arrivals and 'up' for departures, but... let's not forget the fixed aerobridges, with a single access point into/out of the terminal, where both departures and arrivals happen on the lower level.

Confused!?!??

I haven't personally been over to the new international pier to see what those gates are like but gates 9 and 11 are definitely in this boat.

For example for QF93 which usually leaves from gate 9, the passport check occurs upstairs but there is a corridor from the ground level lounges (including the QF J lounge, which is why you are funnelled to the right by lounge staff when exiting the lounge to board the flight) that leads to the lower level of gate 9 allowing you to completely bypass the passport check upstairs.

 

[Simo]

It's been mentioned on 3aw several times.

Apparently pax from an incoming flight were directed through the wrong door and given access to the departure area.

All of those people would have been screened so what would the issue be?

 

[NM]

All of those people would have been screened so what would the issue be?

They were not screen at an Australian secure airport facility. For some reason, we cannot trust foreign airports to properly screen their passengers

 

[dk4]

I haven't personally been over to the new international pier to see what those gates are like...

That's where arrivals are on the top level and departures on the bottom level.

 

[Sprucegoose]

All of those people would have been screened so what would the issue be?

It's called paranoia and accountability that extends further than the issue these days