Get in line

Security at airports. The least enjoyable part of plane journey. Long queues, getting undressed and being touched by strangers. Oh yes, and they’re now taking naked photos of you too. If a club tried doing that it’d be closed down and the owners locked away. We all hate it but it’s a necessary evil to stop terrorists blowing us into many pieces.

However, last time I was at an airport I saw something that really hacked me off. I don’t travel frequently enough to know of it’s available across the board, but Luton Airport charge £3 to enable people to queue jump. How dare they? How is this possible?

Security is something that everyone has to go through. You can’t turn up at the post office and pay £3 to go to the front of the queue. Who made it acceptable for a rich business traveller or a well to do family to skip to the front of a queue, leaving the great unwashed to stand miserably watching the great and the good breeze by.

Some might argue that it’s a choice. You can pay £3 if you want to get through faster, or you can wait in line for free. This is nonsense as offering a £3 premium service automatically makes the rest of us have to wait longer. It slows down the standard service, which is already painfully long.

I think it’s unfair on parents to have to justify the situation to their kids. They already get to see how people in 1st class travel by being forced to traipse through that section on the way to the back of the plane with the plebs. Now there’s another sign that you’re not good enough for you kids. That you’ve not tried hard enough or worked hard enough to be able to provide the best for the family. A family holiday is expensive and it’s disgusting that a two tier structure is created where it is not welcome.

In my eyes this is a thoroughly disgusting practice and should be stopped immediately.