Hello and welcome to today's independent podcast with me Simon Calder and I'm now standing in a queue

at the East Row for security. I've been in it, I guess, about 20, 30 minutes. There's quite

little bit of quite agitated people I've fortunately got an hour and a half before my flight,

so I'm doing okay.

But, of course, this is the airport which has capped the number of passengers at 100,000 per day outbound really saying that they don't believe the ground

handlers can cope. I'm not to talk about this subject today while I'm waiting here

because it's I think really to the detrimental passengers and I'll explain that Nobody wants to stand with a queue for about 40 minutes.

Nobody wants to miss their flight and therefore it's concerning that

on midweek morning there should be such a queue.

But there we are, it's August August it's peak time and that's effectively

what's happening now the issue I think is that it's reasonable to say we can't

come as long as it is clear what is happening and who is responsible.

So if the problem really is very long queers for security, then that's Heathrow's responsibility and we know where that

lies.

But Heathrow is very much doing a lot of finger pointed saying, nothing to do with us, it's the ground

hand. Certainly that's not what I see it here this morning. And the detriment is very significant.

First of all, because they've said, we want to give people confidence. That's why we've

cancelled. We've been placed the cat right through the end of October now.

It was going to end on the 11th of September, which seemed quite sensible because that's the end of the school holidays.

Everyone's back.

Business travellers who, frankly, are more professional travellers than those of five earbuds in there will be going through.

Hopefully security would be a lot.

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