Lionesses Avoid The Kids.

[HeHasRisen]

1 minute ago, Axe said:

The airport authorities will have known some children and their parents were waiting for them to arrive.  The airport authorities should have got a message to the team management to inform them of the fans.  It would not have hurt the team to change their arrangement in order to make the children happy.

Or, the airport could have told the people waiting there were no plans for them to enter the terminal, which would have been much more sensible than everything being changed at short notice.

[Jack Grey]

They had to rush home to get some sleep before their appearance on This Morning and Loose Women 

[Axe]

2 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

Or, the airport could have told the people waiting there were no plans for them to enter the terminal, which would have been much more sensible than everything being changed at short notice.

You mean it would have been easier for them to do that rather than change the planned arrangement.  The people who were waiting will have travelled (some along way) especially to see the players.  I acknowledge nobody told the fans to go there but it would have been a goodwill gesture for both the airport and the team to make the fans mostly children happy.

[HeHasRisen]

And will have involved the short notice changing of security protocol, which may not have actually been possible. 

[Axe]

22 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

And will have involved the short notice changing of security protocol, which may not have actually been possible. 

Laziness is the most likely reason why arrangements were not changed rather than for security reasons.

[ECCOnoob]

2 hours ago, Axe said:

Laziness is the most likely reason why arrangements were not changed rather than for security reasons.

Possibly. However, more like resourcing and monetary implications,will be the more legitimate reason. 

 

Airport operations especially at major hubs like Heathrow are always down to the absolute second. Any slight disruption, changes to staffing or adjustments on terminal operations could cost thousands of pounds.  

 

The fact there may be little darling children or people who travel hundreds of miles to get a glimpse of their footballing stars, is irrelevant. They were not asked to go there. They were not invited to be there. There was no arrangement for them.

 

It's all good with the throw away comment that the airport should have done a "nice gesture" but that will be a business and operational decision for them to make and may not be possible at such short notice with no advance planning.  Even lesser when I see in the papers we are talking about merely 40 entitled cry babies who seem to want the airport to drop everything and pander to their needs when they've already got well over 100,000 actual passengers to deal with in a day. 

 

If the 40 uninvited fans wanted this so much why didn't they make a gesture themselves by reaching out to the airport or authorities and do a bit of planning to try and get something more official and organised set up.  

Edited August 24, 2023 by ECCOnoob

[Al Bundy]

3 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

Possibly. However, more like resourcing and monetary implications,will be the more legitimate reason. 

 

Airport operations especially at major hubs like Heathrow are always down to the absolute second. Any slight disruption, changes to staffing or adjustments on terminal operations could cost thousands of pounds.  

 

The fact there may be little darling children or people who travel hundreds of miles to get a glimpse of their footballing stars, is irrelevant. They were not asked to go there. They were not invited to be there. There was no arrangement for them.

 

It's all good with the throw away comment that the airport should have done a "nice gesture" but that will be a business and operational decision for them to make and may not be possible at such short notice with no advance planning.  Even lesser when I see in the papers we are talking about merely 40 entitled cry babies who seem to want the airport to drop everything and pander to their needs when they've already got well over 100,000 actual passengers to deal with in a day. 

 

If the 40 uninvited fans wanted this so much why didn't they make a gesture themselves by reaching out to the airport or authorities and do a bit of planning to try and get something more official and organised set up.  

But poor little Brittany and Wayne wanted a shirt, that Mummy and Daddy can stick on eBay next week.

🙄

Edited August 24, 2023 by Al Bundy

[Irene Swaine]

You are not telling me a group of grown adults can't decide for themselves which exit they use at an airport. 

[Al Bundy]

2 minutes ago, Irene Swaine said:

You are not telling me a group of grown adults can't decide for themselves which exit they use at an airport. 

I don't think they have the option.

[Irene Swaine]

1 minute ago, Al Bundy said:

I don't think they have the option.

They are free agents, to go where they want and use which ever door they want.