Having seen reports on tv and in papers was wondering if people can share and keep everyone with recent updates as to what airports they used and how long it took to get through check-in and security don't always believe what's in the news but trust people on here will give your the truth.

It might be a bit outdated, but for information: I flew back from Gatwick South Terminal to Vienna exactly a fortnight ago. I got an email from Wizz telling me to be there early as they were expecting longer queues: The result: showed up at airport 3 hours before departure, 1 passenger in front of me at the Wizz counter, nobody in front of me at the electronic passport control, 2 passengers in front of me at the security check, arrived at the gates 2:40h before departure! I then decided to celebrate this at Weatherspoons, where I encountered the longest queue of the afternoon, but after 5-6 customers and a wait of about 5 minutes, I had my beer.

Gatwick are having problems recruiting Security staff, post pandemic. They decided to lay people off rather than furlough them. Consequences are, staff do not want to return given the appalling shift patterns, pay etc.
What I will say is that queues on departures have nothing to do with BF, despite what some say, totally down to Airport authorities

Edited by Spiderman (10 May 2022 10.08pm)

Gatwick North 3 weeks ago - Booked long stay car park kept getting messages that dont turn up at the car park unless pre - booked because of high volumes - I booked the premium security service (£5) because of all the media coverage about long queues, arrived at the airport car park about 05.30 hours & was in the queue for wetherspoons by 06.10 hours - so I was glad I did & the airport terminal building was packed.

Couple days ago - my boss was in Birmingham seeing customers, he had the evening flight back to Belfast, he allowed 2 hours from arrival at the terminal building (which was normally plenty of time) due to delays checking in & in security he ended up missing the flight.

I will going through T2 in 4 weeks time so if you could update us on your experience I would be most grateful.

Went to Tenerife last week Gatwick North.Told to arrive early for 7am flight .Got there 5am straight through no problems same return. Easy Jet Very little food on board so would advise bring your own same on return.