After faceboarding, goodbye shortcut: now if you depart from Linate you'll have to put in "longer" times

Those who have seen the movie Up in the Air with George Clooney know this very well: the frequent flyer Is habitual, often scaramantic, but above all he is obsessed with two things: the points and lose as little time as possible.

At Linate, as we had reported in our train Vs plane challenge, things in recent years have improved so much: the subway, next-generation controls, faceboarding, and the new air terminal.

A set of factors that allow Those who travel with counted minutes to travel more serene and be able to devote more time to work, family or simply enjoying the lounge.

However, things have definitely gotten worse lately. First the farewell to the Faceboarding, enforced by the Privacy Guarantor which froze the service pending regulatory adjustment, and now the final blow: longer forced route to the gate.

We are talking about a small shortcut that made it possible to avoid the sofa peninsula in the post-duty free plaza. Ever since the opening of the new Linate, at the height of the covid period, the space between the wall and the long sofa had never been completely closed.

And over the years it had become a kind of secret passageway for all frequent flyers, and little use had been made of the idea of placing a lapada to stop hurried (or lazy) passengers.

Airports, especially in Europe, are increasingly becoming shopping malls, where everything is designed to incentivize spending by patrons. And as in a supermarket, stores and boutiques are strategically placed and evidently, people skipping "an aisle" to go directly to the gate created a detriment to the boutiques or restaurants upstairs (Where I admit I have never set foot ed.).

And so in the days before Christmas we first saw a pot placed to close the shortcut and finally more pots to close the possible steps altogether.

So now the situation is as above, There is no longer an option to shorten the route, or maybe it would be better to use the conditional, because in my two passages from Linate these days. I've seen dozens of people simply jump the couch center, which being backless is easily bypassed and one can bet will be replaced soon, perhaps citing a safety issue.

Hopefully SEA will reconsider, in any case those who used that shortcut will not change their habits, will not stop to dine at restaurants they have never seen before, much less store in stores, All it would take is to move a pot.