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Brussels Airport security staff to take industrial action on Monday
Brussels Airport security staff announced they will conduct a work-to-rule on Monday, after expressing concerns that around 50 people have slipped through the gates to the Schengen area without a valid boarding pass. The action will take place on a particularly busy day for the airport.
"The gates are far from reliable," said the federal secretary of CGSP Aviation, Bart Neyens. "We are aware of 50 incidents since the end of March. Dozens of passengers without tickets have got through the gates." Reportedly on Sunday two men managed to board a plane without boarding passes before they were apprehended.
The liberal and socialist unions are particularly concerned by this situation and have therefore announced a work-to rule on Monday. "For a few hours, we will conduct thorough searches," said Neyens.
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Just ridiculous.
Pathetic but wonder how people get on planes without boarding passes. This week I told a customs officer (I had just returned from holiday and saw absolutly NO police anywhere) as i was passing through about a suitcase which had been sitting unattended for 30 minutes. He did not thank me, he did not move, but he chatted to the other customs man about it--total ineptitude.