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A travel expert has shared her trick to dealing with long airport queues at the security gates during peak times.

Katy Maclure, editor of The Detour, a weekly newsletter from the app Jack’s Flight Club, which helps travelers find cheap flights, 

She wrote in an article in Conde Nast Traveller: “You can’t control how long the queues will be, but you can check in advance to see how many other flights are due to depart around the same time, and allow extra time if it’s looking busy – this is a particularly good idea during peak summer travel.”

Maclure also pointed out it may come in handy to download the app MiFlight, which shows users their expected wait time in the airport queue.

With this tool, those hoping for smoother travel experience can check the best time to avoid long waits and huge crowds.

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A security expert previously explained how to tell if the queue is going to be slow in advance and chose the right queue instead.

They told The Sun: “Often if there is more than one security office at an x-ray machine, there’s a chance that one of the employees is a trainee.

“So you could be risking a line that goes a little slower.”

Another travel expert claimed last year that choosing the left lane could get you through quicker than if you turn right at security.

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The Quora user, who calls himself an expert on airports, explained that people tend to subconsciously pick which way to go depending on our dominant hand.

As most people are right-handed, the lanes on the right tend to be busier than those on the left.

The online user said, as per The Sun: “Because they are mostly right-handed, people choose the right line while the left one is often less busy.

“Some airports also have a hidden security line, away from the rest, often faster than all the rest.”

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