To think people jumping the airport security queue should pay for fast track or wait like everyone else?

I get special assistance so get through quickly I allow 3 to 4 hrs extra tho

OP I think the key here is that actually you should have been one of those people asking to jump in. No one likes to queue etc and anyone can be genuinely late. If I'm very much on time then I'll let people in who might miss their flight. I don't know why you were being such a martyr about it. People jumping in just to get into the lounge for a drink however is not ok.

If everyone bought a fast pass then there would be no fast pass 😁.

At my local airport, if someone is legitimately at risk of missing their flight, the staff will bring them to the front of the queue. You can’t just barge ahead yourself.

I always leave plenty of time. But the lack of staff at most of the scanning stations is really irritating. Or at passport control on the other side. The constant claims of being understaffed grows weak.

You're so fixated on how "entitled" you'd have been to ask that you miss the part where people ahead clearly were accepting and would have let you

Pushing in for no reason is entitled, asking for some compassion because of circumstances beyond your control is not

I think the numbers of people who intentionally turn up late and then overtake in the queue are in the absolute minority so I really wouldn't let it bother me.

Why were you so strangely passive OP? I wouldn't have just stood there either watching everyone else who was late do what you should have done.

FWIW I'd happily let someone genuinely stressed through - why wouldn't I? It's no skin off my nose if I have plenty of time.

Their reasons for being late are probably just as valid as yours.

I’m a really stressy person so am always way too early for flights. I don’t mind at all letting people go ahead of me.
so long as you ask nicely, I think it’s fine.

We live in a society. We don’t live in an “everyone for themselves” apocalypse. You were delayed by coaches so your fellow humans will let you go through. It’s not entitlement. It’s courtesy. Show some and maybe you’ll receive some.

We always get to airports stupidly early, we arrive for everything early. As do my parents.

My parents were once those people, asking to move to the front of a security queue. They were stuck for over 5 hours in a traffic jam once, they didn’t move anywhere. Somehow checkin stayed open for them and they managed to make their flight. They were 60+ at the time and were absolutely exhausted by running through the airport. So now I try to be a bit more accommodating. Yes, some will people who didn’t bother to leave enough time, but sometimes people have had such bad luck.

Yes it’s annoying I always pay for fast pass we flew from Manchester on Saturday from bag drop to sitting in the lounge 15 minutes bliss

we had this in Toronto and had no choice - but we went through the staff/ channel as our inbound flight was very delayed - we made the connection then they delayed our outbound waiting for others stuck in security as a lot of the connecting flights where late.

We were at Schipol a while ago when they had disastrous 3h queues for security.

The number of people walking up to staff saying that they were catching a flight was incredible. One security man waved to the thousands-long queue and said that the rest of us were waiting for a bus :D

I agree. Don’t just stand there!
My train to Heathrow was delayed twice where we sat on the tracks at a dead stop. The first time was tragically due to a suicide. The second was due to the train before us having a medical emergency where we had to wait until the ill passenger had been taken off by paramedics to an ambulance before we could come into a station. So instead of arriving 3.5hrs before my flight, I arrived at Heathrow 1hr 10mins before my flight. I had no choice but to jump the bag drop and security queues. Luckily I am disabled and had prebooked assistance so they took care of me. But if I were abled, yeah I would have done exactly what others did.

This is basically like the government getting us to bicker over scraps.
The more serious question should be why airport security takes so fucking long.

I agree OP (mostly).

If someone is that late, they should ask security as they enter the queue and, if security then agree, they should show them into the fast track line. I think they should also pay at the time - a small price for making their flight and I'm sure the majority just don't leave enough time.

They should not just take it upon themselves to force their way through the regular queue, where noone has any idea if they are genuinely late or if they are just twats.

I'd like to think I would refuse to move and then, if things got heated, get security over, but more likely I would be scared they would get violent and move out of the way, sadly. Twats are twats mostly because they know that they usually get away with it.

So why did you just stand there then?
”Excuse me, my flight is leaving in minutes and I will miss it if you keep letting people in. Could I get through please!”

We missed our flight a while ago, the guy in front of us in the security queue could not have cared less 😂the staff didn't help us either. I can still picture his face now - so annoying but what can you do!

No fault of our own btw, and we did eventually get a refund. I would personally always let someone in!

@WarshipRocinante we had a connection through Atlanta a few years ago. Our flight got in on time but we didn't get to clear through security to get our 2nd flight. I asked a security officer and was very firmly told 'ma'am return to the line' and I did because airport security there are a bit scary!!😳

OP in general I would think most people jumping the queue have had a genuine reason it's annoying when you are on time but maybe their car broke down or 100 other things. Or maybe they are CFs who want to get in ahead of you so they can pay 5x the price for a warm glass of white wine

If you were getting close to boarding time I'd have said it to the staff

I wouldn't be standing there in a queue deliberately missing my flight just to be polite and not queue jump.

It would piss me off too OP as I always allow loads of time for these things (too much according to DH and The DC) but I might chunter a bit but I wouldnt wnat anyone to miss their flight.
Having said that I have never had an individual do it unless called forward by Airline/Security staff