frank wrote:This doesn't make sense either - people paying at the gate will arrive early to get in whilst advance ticket holders will still be arriving well after. How do you predict numbers on that basis.
hmm ... on second thoughts, I guess you may be right ... but then they know how many advance tickets they've sold; so they have a finite number of on-the-gate tickets available ... although they don't know how many advance ticket holders will go to east and how many to west ... it all gets a bit confusing.
I wonder if there's an H&S ruling on maximum crowd capacity within a specified area?
frank wrote:Also if you are turned away at the gate - where do you go - you try to find somewhere else to view the departures
Well that's certainly true - I can't imagine anyone who is turned away just shrugging their shoulders, jumping in the car and driving back home.
frank wrote:It would be far better to only do advance sales accepting people can go either end - at least you know what you are dealing with to a degree.
Its not a question of spare capacity wasted - thats just being too greedy at the expense of the comfort and experience of all.
Have to agree with this - by far the fairest system.
While on the subject of things that don't make sense, can anyone see any reason for the left-right split of ladder / non-ladder areas in the P&Vs? Surely the logical divide would be parallel with the runway, with the ladder area in the rear portion of the enclosures, similar to the 10m exclusion zone in the showground on show days?