This is the Bristol airport and the queue stretching the whole length is passengers waiting to go through the passport control and security check.
The queue is very slow and many passengers risk missing their flight. That would be a problem. Luckily, there is a solution: for 5 pounds only, you can buy access to the fast track!
In his “10 strategies of manipulation by the media”, linguist Noam Chomsky mentioned the same mechanism: create a problem, then, offer a remedy to cope with it. What he described are tactics to get the public to accept what they would otherwise reject (i.e., limit to their rights and freedom). In Bristol the principle is the same, used to a commercial end.
The queue is actually twice as long, it continues in the next building.
The queue doesn't end here. This is a gate where the serpentine queue starts and if you want you can buy your priority pass on the vending machines and enter the serpentine following the left arrow.
A lovely attendant will make sure that you buy your ticket...
The vending machines are on the left...
The Bristol Airport fast track vending machines.
