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Sleeping in Airports

Postby Мастер » Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:58 am

Singapore Changi ranked #1 for the 17th year in a row.

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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:14 am

Wow!
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:12 am

Bergamo as the worst doesn't surprise me. It is the budget airline Milan so undersized for its traffic. I think the complaint that the staff only speak Italian is harsh, how many languages do other security speak?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:28 pm

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Maybe they got off the plane from Changi?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Мастер » Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:25 pm

And this post brought to you from the world's best airport for sleeping . . .
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:44 pm

Are you still in Istanbul then?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:18 am

A reprise of the last 10 days airports:
Edinburgh - functional and I'm used to it so no problems.
Rome Ciampino - budget airline airport, concrete and functional. I wouldn't like to sit down never mind try to sleep.
Rome Fiumicino - proper airport with a very quiet terminal for internal flights, good sleeping potential.
Palermo - hard to tell if they are still building it or part way through tearing it down. Possibly both.
Gatwick - far too large, unfriendly and largely lacking in seats. They make a huge proportion of their money from the shops so that is the priority.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:16 pm

You on business with the vatican or the mafia?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Мастер » Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:35 pm

Will have the opportunity to sleep in at least five, and possibly as many as nine airports, before the end of the month, several of them repeated.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Lianachan » Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:58 pm

tubeswell wrote:Image

Maybe they got off the plane from Changi?


If that woman on the right thinks she can do what she likes, where she likes - just because she's going out with The Invisible Man - she's sadly mistaken.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:49 am

Lianachan wrote:
tubeswell wrote:Image

Maybe they got off the plane from Changi?


If that woman on the right thinks she can do what she likes, where she likes - just because she's going out with The Invisible Man - she's sadly mistaken.


Weight lifting with the invisible man?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:54 am

tubeswell wrote:You on business with the vatican or the mafia?

Alas neither, a long weekend in Rome and a few days in Sicily. I'll say one thing for the Mafia, the roads in Sicily are fantastic, wide empty motorways with no traffic.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Nov 12, 2013 12:02 pm

Toll Motorways?
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:21 pm

Only one short stretch.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:25 pm

So I wonder how the mafia keep the other motorways clear then? (Purely from the point of view of planning curiosity)
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:43 am

They don't need to, there isn't the traffic to support them. They bribe politicians to build them so they can take a cut of the contract. What in the UK or NZ would be a winding local road is a motorway on stilts in Sicily.

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And another. Note the unnecessary pylons to raise it off the very stable ground.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby tubeswell » Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:11 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:They don't need to, there isn't the traffic to support them. They bribe politicians to build them so they can take a cut of the contract.


Sounds like they'd make a good PPP partner for a local road project we have in the wings in my own backyard. http://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/transmission-gully/
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:19 pm

Heid the Ba wrote:Bergamo as the worst doesn't surprise me. It is the budget airline Milan so undersized for its traffic. I think the complaint that the staff only speak Italian is harsh, how many languages do other security speak?

I had forgotten this and came across the post while looking for something else. We flew out of Bergamo just after New Year and it was a fucking shit show. Everything took far longer than it should and nothing was near anything else, which I know sounds impossible but they somehow managed it.
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Re: Sleeping in Airports

Postby Richard A » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:16 pm

A surprise contender for my #1 airport: Muscat, particularly for arrivals. Apparently they just built a new one and the previous one really was awful, but this really was great. I think the only time I've cleared an airport of a capital that fast was Berlin Tegel one evening when the plane was late and customs had gone home. And that was the early 90s. Departures, coming back, not quite so good (although not bad!) but made up for afterwards by the Christmas party at the back of the plane!

But as I've stumbled across this thread, I didn't know whether to laugh or scream at my compatriot moaning on and on in the queue at Dubai airport about the so-called arrogant attitude of the immigration officers. (I've never found them to be.) I asked him if he had any idea how non-Brits were treated by our own Border Force and he said it wasn't as bad. Just what freaking planet is he on??
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