Tag Archive: Airports

East to Flores and Labuan Bajo

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A new experience at check-in this morning – queue, present ticket, weigh checked baggage and then the unexpected request – “Sir, stand on scales please…” – the four staff behind the desk didn’t even try to suppress their giggles when the kg scale flipped into triple digits and kept on rolling.  This made me expect…

Epic fail on the baggage carousel lottery

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The Low Cost Carrier Terminal at KLIA is a scruffy, poorly designed collection of concrete boxes – you can get a coffee and something to eat, but very little else – large swathes of the bag-drop and check-in area don’t have air-conditioning, and even at 7am things are hot and humid. But, this is still…

Escaping Eyjafjallajökull

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Remember the golden age of air travel – elusive sophistication out of reach of all but the chosen few, jetting off from art deco lounges? Well, I can’t believe that ever applied to Birmingham Airport.