This is an obnoxious airport, certainly T2. Where...

This is an obnoxious airport, certainly T2. Where to start.

Going through security is a horrible experience, rude staff, little tiny trays so you need to use many of them, and no where to take them too after the xray machine, so you're trying to repack your bag directly on the tray rack. Every other airport I've been to you can lift them off and take to a table. On this occasion people (I think actually staff) were literally pushing on the trays and mine fell off.

Air side, I usually quite enjoy milling around an airport for an hour or two before a flight, but this was a horrible experience. No decent bars or places to get food (except a very busy and overpriced Jamie Oliver restaurant). If you need to sit you're going to Starbucks (over 6 euros for a coffee believe it or not).

The departure gate (B21/B22) has literally 6 seats (to share between 300 people). Boarding was a joke because were were queued around a corner, and into the main lounge; no one bothered to open the ropes to form an orderly line. It was a pointless waste of priority boarding.

I'm rarely one to praise the UK, but as someone who flies weekly and goes through dozens of airports they make the UK's look positively luxurious. This was far and away the worst I've experienced.

You can't avoid it obviously, but plan to spend as little time as possible at this disgraceful place.