More than 6,000 people were expected to travel through the airport between Friday and Sunday.
But there are worries there will be delays for departing passengers. There have already been long queues at times over the last few weeks, and yesterday all three private colleges broke up for the summer.
Head of passenger operations and aviation services Steve Langlois said they had to drop down to a single security lane on occasions recently due to a shortage of staff.
‘We are currently experiencing higher levels of staff sickness than usual, which appears to be a general trend across the island.
This has led to us having to operate a single security lane on a small number of shifts in recent weeks.’
This means that at peak times, with a single lane, it takes 20 minutes from a passenger joining the queue to pass all the way through security.
Guernsey Ports brought its aviation security services in-house in April this year.
‘We have worked closely with the previous supplier throughout the transition, resulting in a successful handover of services to a new team, many of whom already have experience in security services at Guernsey and Alderney Airports,’ Mr Langlois said.
‘This has involved putting in place a new staff training structure and regime to cope with the demands of the operation, which has become increasingly important given the complexities of aviation security regulation.
‘In addition to this, we are actively recruiting in order to increase our resilience within the security operation.’
This weekend there was set to be 3,318 departing passengers and 2,938 arriving passengers booked over the three days.
Today five of the six flights to Gatwick are sold out, as are two of the five flights tomorrow.
n Guernsey’s States schools are set to break up Friday 19 July.
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