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Airport has top plan for security hall

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Published date05 July 2022
The city airport is promising passengers a simpler, speedier journey through the security checkpoint from June 2024

Artist's impressions show what the nextgeneration security zone will look like: a spacious hall with a row of security access gates. Bosses hope the new system will help the airport to cope with an anticipated surge in passenger numbers.

This investment the way for customer economic West Nick

Following the lifting of COVID travel restrictions in March, holidaymakers complained of long queues through security at Birmingham as the staff-cut airport struggled to recruit new workers fast enough to cope with demand.

Travellers have reported a much smoother journey through the airport in recent weeks and BHX confirmed on

June 10 that it had hired the additional security officers it needed in the leadup to the busy summer holiday period.

In its masterplan published in 2018, the airport outlined its aspiration to grow customer volumes from 13 million a year pre-pandemic, to around 18 million by 2033. The new security investment will achieve compliance with new...

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