Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Damn Warsaw airport

Okecie airport - the pride and glory of Poland …. is no better than a huge central station in a third world country. I officially declare the place as the world's worst place. A couple of weeks ago I went to that airport to pick up a friend. I went to the expected arrival place only to find an A4 sized piece of paper with a sentence saying "Wszystkie przyloty na terminal 2" - hehe if you're not a Polish speaker - I guess you just need to figure this one out on your own, cause no English was available anywhere.

At terminal 2 which fortunately is not that far - 7 mins on foot I have spotted a first monitor and something very worrying - that the plane is scheduled to arrive at terminal 1. Off to terminal 1. At T1, after 20 mins and no apparent sign of ppl coming out of the gates, I found out, that "it does not mean that the plane is arriving at T1 if on the monitors it says T1 and I should be waiting at T2". That was already an hour past her arrival. In the end I missed the welcoming, my friend went home and we had to catch up 2 days later.

That's not all though. Today I spent an hour trying to check-in my luggage. Finally I got to the business class desk, which for no apparent reason was serving regular customers. I put my luggage on the belt, the lady did the usual thing and the luggage got stuck further down the counters. So the lady at the counter (business class mind you) tells me to go behind her counter where the people normally are not even allowed and asks me to adjust the luggage myself … cause it's my luggage that's stuck and apparently it's my problem.

In the end I didn't even have time to properly talk with my mom, I was stressed out, cause boarding was closing in 10 minutes and I still have not even entered the airport zone. I get to the gate and gotta still wait half an hour and on the plane they announce a 40 minute delay. WHAT THE FUCK?

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