A weird airport. It looks modern and nice. But it’s run so bad. My job has me flying weekly around the world, nowhere is as backwards as here. Passport control has about 30 desks. But no more than 3 or 4 are open at a time, every time I’m queuing for up to an hour to get a passport stamp. Then there’ll be a queue at the bag scanning, it also has 30 desks, but usually only 2 are open. Then trying to leave, you can’t check in early, like back in the 90s, they’ll only let you check in 2 hours before a flight, even though the desk for your airline is open? Not being able to check in would be fine, if there was seats or cafes for customers, but no, there’s hardly any seats and just 1 very small, very poor, cafe. Inside there’s loads of great shops and cafes, surely letting people into departures would mean more money would be spent? I’ve not experienced that anywhere else in many, many, years. They also don’t just check you in, in most airports you just give them your passport. Not here, they want printed out tickets & booking references? Why? No where else still does that. These aren’t the airline people though, many of these desks are manned by airport staff, I can only presume the actual airlines hate that it’s all done so stupidly? This is only a few of the issues, nothing works logically, but these are the two things I find the oddest. So it’s a very nice looking, and laid out, airport. But insanely badly ran and organised. Has no one that runs and organises this airport travelled to other countries and seen how the rest of the world does it so much better?
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