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One lane is currently closed on the M42 northbound, between J5 for Solihull and J6 for Birmingham Airport, following a collision.

Police are at the scene. Motorists have been warned to expect delays of at least 30 minutes.

The airport’s new scanners will eventually allow passengers to carry two litres in hand luggage, but last minute government rules meant holidaymakers were, and still are, confined to just 100ml bottles.

One person online has urged BHX to “stop blaming passengers” for its “failings”.

With the morning rush out the way, passenger Natasha Stanley is having a pleasant Birmingham Airport experience.

She wrote on X this afternoon: “Birmingham Airport was quiet and easy.”

A furious Brummie has blasted “poor managment” at BHX.

Chris Cooper wrote on social media platform X this afternoon: “Absolutely disgusting way to treat their customers. No wonder people are looking to avoid BHX, if at all possible.”

Did you travel from BHX today or over the weekend?

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One pleased passenger at BHX today said the queue was “moving regularly” with “no stopping”.

Sarfraz Hussain said: “20 mins from check-in to past security. It’s packed, no needle space, but moving regularly – no stopping.”

Queues are typically busiest first thing in the morning. Passengers often report much smoother experiences of getting through security after around 10am.

This X user below, travelling from BHX, said they were able to get through security faster than ever before.

There doesn’t appear to be any queues currently outside Birmingham Airport.

Sarfraz Hussain, flying from BHX today, wrote on X at 10.01am: “Normal wait for check-in to open. No waiting outside.”

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Despite plans to relax restrictions on the 100ml liquid rule for hand luggage due to improvements in security technology, the failure to install these improvements at every airport caused the Government to change their guidance at the last minute, reverting the change just over a week ago.

You can only carry 100ml containers in your hand luggage. BHX states the rules explicitly on its website:

• Only liquids, pastes and gels in containers up to 100ml can be carried in hand luggage – anything larger needs to be in checked in luggage.
• No liquids above this size.
• Anything above the 100ml will be removed and destroyed.
• There is no limit on the amount of under 100mls containers that can be carried.
• Containers that can carry more than a 100ml, such as insulated bottles, are permitted but need to be completely empty.
• Do not put your liquids, pastes and gels into plastic bags (please leave them loose in hand luggage).
• Do not take them out of your hand luggage when you’re in the security search area.
• Leave all electricals in hand luggage during the security search.
• When going through security please ensure all items are out of pockets including phones, keys, coins and tissues etc. Watches can be left on.

A BirminghamLive reader who flew from BHX twice in one week had both a good and bad experience. Passenger Michael Milton flew from the airport last Thursday morning and told us it took him one hour and 45 minutes to get through security.

However, his experience flying from BHX to Copenhagen on Sunday was far smoother. He said: “I was through security in two minutes flat!”

Did you travel from BHX today or over the weekend?

Let me know about your experience, good or bad, by emailing harry.leach@reachplc.com

Happy passenger Carl Stokes said he was “straight through” security this morning and faced “no queues at all”.

Carl had arrived at the airport three hours before – in line with airline advice.

Birmingham Airport has explained what happened after a meet-and-greet parking service abruptly suspended its operations last month. Independent airport parking provider Blue Circle Parking stopped collecting and delivering cars belonging to BHX customers on May 20 after it “suspended operations.”

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Fed-up passengers slammed Birmingham Airport as a “disgrace” and “beyond awful” yesterday after reportedly queuing for more than two hours to get through security.

Some claimed they had missed, or nearly missed, their flights due to long waiting times.

Queues today appear to have died down quicker – though passengers were still waiting outside the terminal building before reaching security.

Passenger Leon Evans, sharing a picture of the queue outside Birmingham Airport, warned passengers this morning to allow for “plenty of time”.

He said: “Staff are friendly and trying their best, but it’s a challenge!”

A passenger this morning asked BHX when it will re-open the escalators for access upstairs.

He added: “Use of lifts only upstairs is a ‘bottleneck’ and was not a good decision.”

He, like many others, want to know if the escalators leading up to security are coming back.

Well, we have the anwser right here: Birmingham Airport confirms fate of escalators as building works near their end

A passenger today slammed BHX as “an utter joke”.

Venting on social media, the holidaymaker said: “6am in the morning and queues right round the airport and out into the streets. Give this airport a miss – they have it badly wrong.”

Someone who dropped a traveller off at BHX this morning has reported trouble finding a spot to park, even in the premium drop-off area.

Bryn called it a “mess”, saying: “Not one parking space this morning to drop off passengers in the premium drop off car park. If only they had the same system as Heathrow and Gatwick.”

As well as some confusion over the 100ml hand luggage rule changes, many passengers have reported difficulties even getting to security, as ongoing construction work at the airport has changed the normal queuing process.

BHX have said: “Our new security area construction works are still on-going. This means the queuing area for security is mainly downstairs.

“Please note that all passengers arriving by train are required to head to the ground floor to join the queue for security.”

This change is reportedly part of the reason for the delays. A passenger said yesterday: “Queues this morning to get from monorail arrival to lift. At one point new arrivals from the monorail struggled to alight the monorail because of the queue.

“Then joined another queue outside the airport to go back up to the same level, in same lift, all BEFORE you get to the Security queue.”

Despite plans to relax restrictions on the 100ml liquid rule for hand luggage due to improvements in security technology, the failure to install these improvements at every airport caused the Government to change their guidance at the last minute, reverting the change just over a week ago.

You can only carry 100ml containers in your hand luggage. BHX states the rules explicitly on its website:

• Only liquids, pastes and gels in containers up to 100ml can be carried in hand luggage – anything larger needs to be in checked in luggage.
• No liquids above this size.
• Anything above the 100ml will be removed and destroyed.
• There is no limit on the amount of under 100mls containers that can be carried.
• Containers that can carry more than a 100ml, such as insulated bottles, are permitted but need to be completely empty.
• Do not put your liquids, pastes and gels into plastic bags (please leave them loose in hand luggage).
• Do not take them out of your hand luggage when you’re in the security search area.
• Leave all electricals in hand luggage during the security search.
• When going through security please ensure all items are out of pockets including phones, keys, coins and tissues etc. Watches can be left on.