Dabolim aiport Goa India and also Bombay India
Talk about jobsworths!! Entrance to Airport you must show ticket to Guard before allowed anywhere near doors, then security screening, but only through your own airlines scanner, all hold luggage must then have a security seal on. Proceed to check in ,Big queues all merging into each other, while waiting, fill in embarking form to be handed in at passport control,, Much later!!,
Hand tickets etc over at check in desk, suitcase has seal, check, handbag, hand luggage, carrier bag, anything not to be checked in should have had a tag and stamped by security earlier, So if you didnt get done same time as checked in stuff they will supply but with lots of the nodding of heads Indian style, bit like the old nodding dogs.
I am not racist My late husband was Indian
Proceed with boarding cards to passport control, a big Big queue. Just as you near the front theres a tannoy announcement to let all the people who have been held up checking in etc has priority as flight departing, so back to end of queue
Customs asking where you are travelling to, Turkey I said, but you dont have Visa, the reply, But I dont need, I have Residency Visa and anyway I could buy visa in Turkey, I said. 30 minutes and much more nodding of heads later they let you through
Get tags on bags stamped again and passport looked at.
Queue again for another security check Go into a booth for a scan and hand baggage x rayed, ladies get a private booth. Men just the usual wand waved over them in public, any lighters in bags confiscated
Enter lounge and the hand luggage tags are scutinised and stamped again. Buy new lighter, or maybe its a second hand one confiscated earlier! who cares by then, Phew Nearly there
Flight called, Go to gate, Another look at tags on bags and stamped.
Another security search Ladies in Booths. Men in queue, they dont seem to worry at this point that you have obtained a new lighter and have that in your bag Stamp tags on bags again!
Out onto runway where they wave you in a vague direction where your plane is, ok . But can be confusing when you are on Monarch and there are 2 Monarch planes sitting there
Sit on a boiling plane for 30 minutes minimum While people are wandering around shouting, wheres this plane going??
