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#airport

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I'm sure that removing my belt when I go through security at the airport is keeping us all safe.

Or maybe not:

"Police are investigating after a 17-year-old teenager allegedly boarded a Jetstar flight with a shotgun and ammunition ...
"Dressed in hi-vis clothing the teen was thought to be a maintenance worker when he allegedly entered Avalon airport through a hole in the facility’s fence on Thursday afternoon.
"It is alleged he then walked up the boarding staircase and into the plane, where 160 passengers were onboard."

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Teenager overpowered by plane passengers after allegedly boarding Jetstar flight with ‘large gun’ at Avalon airportBy Elias Visontay

#edinburgh #airport is one of these airports that hates passengers.

The walk from security to the gate area is a retail gauntlet made deliberately winding. It’s like google giving shitty search results so you have to page through lots of results.

The seating available is easily 50% commercial. That is, it’s pret and cafe Nero and Starbucks and such.

They don’t show gate info until about 10 minutes before boarding, which has long been the case. I suspect it’s a security thing. But it means you have to hunt for a free (uncomfortable) seat in a random part of the airport, not knowing if you’re near your gate or not.

It is crowded and small because they have maximised the floor space available to retail.

It is enshittification of #airtravel