Carnage? Pfffft!

[eve1974]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/carnage-heathrow-passenger-says-brought-152704544.html

Whilst a 5 hour wait is clearly frustrating and a huge inconvenience it is hardly “carnage”

So tired of first world problems!

[bednobs]

i read it as people arriving in the UK, not departing

[naomi24]

It can’t be check in. Everyone would be missing their flights. It must be arrivals.

[Jackdaw33]

Carnage is a noun, not an adjective.

[Sqad]

Thank you jackdaw, I thought that it could be either.
Noted.

[Sqad]

Yes, it looks like arrivals.....my mistake.

[ichkeria]

“ carnage" is an adjective which means different things to different people to describe different states of chaos and discomfort and that to me describes the scene at Heathrow.

It’s actually a noun and it has one meaning only: the slaughter of large numbers of people.
Hardly a hanging offence to use it, but I have a lot of sympathy with the questioner

[Sqad]

Ich...yes! yes!, my error has been pointed out to me by jackdaw.

[New Judge]

//Yes, it looks like arrivals.....my mistake.//

The photograph in the link is unmistakably of a check-in (i.e. departures) zone. There are check-in desks with screens above showing which airline/destination they are handling and a large "B" to denote the zone. There is also a caption which demonstrates that the photo has not necessarily anything to do with the story ("Travellers queuing Heathrow Airport this summer"). It looks fairly typical of a busy departure are at Heathrow.

The text of the story definitely describes the experiences suffered by arriving passengers.

[gulliver1]

Wonder how the Brexiteers feel now they have to join non E/U passport queues , They always seemed longer and slower.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, are there EU passport holders only sections still in UK airports?

[gulliver1]

Gosh your a bit late for the Knit and natter club, or are you going to give them a break today.

[smurfchops]

People know what to expect on return. Don’t go abroad in the first place. England is great!!!

[webbo3]

No one forced them to go to the airport.

[bednobs]

lol smurfhops werent you asking about european travel ins the other day

[mushroom25]

// England is great!!! //

so it might be. with such a seemingly captive audience, why aren't the UK holiday companies capitalising and encouraging, and showing potential holidaymakers how great Britain is?

what they have been doing is charging maximum prices, like £5000 a week for a let in the south-west, or £3000 in north Norfolk. profiteering is not going to encourage people to holiday here. hence the big airport queues.

[jno]

is that profiteering or is it trying to stay afloat after a year of no business?

[mushroom25]

well maybe there's a fine line - but if the prices alienate potential customers (and I know plenty who looked and walked away), then it's profiteering.

[douglas9401]

Not carnage, planenage.

[Deskdiary]

"Don’t go abroad in the first place. England is great!!!"

Not when it's teeming it down, or cold, or just generally miserable - which it was all last month, and not when demand has seen prices sky rocket.