Airports

There was once when we were taking Thai Airways from LHR (Heathrow) to KUL (KLIA), transiting through BKK, the transit time is really short, less than 1 hour. Even our luggage is tagged with big yellow sign, ‘Hot Transfer’. I am not entirely sure if BKK Airport is really that big. From one end to another, we were already walking really fast, no time to even stop and take a breath, and we reached the gate just in time. The feeling is like you just need to walk and walk, there is no end in sight. The signboard forever pointing that in front is the gate number. Well, plenty of shopping opportunities in BKK but we did not have time for that. Anyway, we will be going there again later this year.

In my recent trip, DEL Airport (Indira Gandhi) has just gone through a major renovation last year, I think. We were in Terminal 3, it’s the new one I guess. The journey from the immigration to the gateway is like walking around half a stadium. One conveyor walkway after another, and furthermore, there are like places without conveyor, where we have to really walk. One thing nice about this Terminal 3 is that they have free Wifi! Where we can just request for a code using our mobile, any country free of charge.

While I was in RUH (King Khaled), the taxi driver dropped me at the wrong terminal. There is no transfer service from one terminal and another, well, I had to walk myself from one terminal to another, around 500m, hauling my luggage bag all along. When I reached the other terminal, the queue is really long at the scanning part before the check-in. Phew, hopefully I still managed to check-in. The best thing about RUH is not when leaving KSA, it is about reaching KSA. During the immigration phase when we arrived, don’t bother about the label on top of the immigration counters. Just go to any counters apart from the one on the left most, usually the one with the longest queue. The immigration officer will always ask us to go the left most queue, we can just ignore him. It will take at least 2 hours to clear the immigration if we go for the left most queue.

There are more to go, but I need to take rest first.